ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,726, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Inductor" was invented by Toru Iwabuchi (Osaka, Japan) and Hitoshi Horiuchi (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inductor includes: a magnetic core member comprising metal magnetic material powder and resin; and a coil member which is a conductor, and has one part embedded inside the magnetic core member and an other part exposed outside the magnetic core member, wherein the magnetic core member has: a filling rate of the metal magnetic material powder of at least 73.5% by volume and at most 80.4% by volume; and a ...