ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,611, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Coil component" was invented by Shigeto Yamamoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Ryota Hashimoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hiroyuki Honda (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Ken Hayashii (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Kaori Takezawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil component includes a core having a winding core portion; and a coil, wound around the winding core portion, that includes a plurality of wires, in which the coil has a twisted-wire portion formed by twisting a plurality of wires together. The twisted-wire portion is wound around the winding core ...