ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,706, issued on March 24, was assigned to TAIYO YUDEN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Coil component and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Hitoshi Matsuura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment provides a coil component including a base body, and a coil conductor provided in the base body. At least partial region of the base body contains (i) a plurality of first metal magnetic particles having a first aspect ratio greater than one and having a first average particle size and (ii) a plurality of second metal magnetic particles having a second aspect ratio greater than the first aspect ratio, having a second average p...