ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,909, issued on May 5, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Coil former, inductive component and method for adjusting an inductance" was invented by Oleg Fursa (Gempenach, Switzerland), Jurgen Frey (Heidenheim, Germany) and Stefan Weber (Regensburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive component is provided, including: a coil former including a base body and being a carrier for a winding wire; an electrically insulating foil, some regions of the body being wrapped with the foil; and a winding of the wire around the coil former, such that the foil is between the wire and the body, and exte...