ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,211, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Coil component" was invented by Jae Wook Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and In Young Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil component includes a body, a coil portion disposed in the body and including lead-out portions exposed to one surface of the body; external electrodes disposed on the body and connected to the lead-out portions, and a surface insulating layer disposed on the body and including fillers, in which a ratio of a cross-sectional area of the fillers to a cross-sectional area of the entire surfa...