ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,238, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Inductor" was invented by Keisuke Okumura (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshihiro Furukawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor includes a wire, and a magnetic layer having a sheet shape and for embedding the wire. The wire includes a conducting wire, and an insulating film disposed on a conducting wire circumferential surface of the conducting wire. The magnetic layer contains an anisotropic magnetic particle at a ratio of 40% by volume or more. Of a first plane section, a second plane section, and a third plane section along a plane direction of the...