ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,534, issued on March 3, was assigned to TAIYO YUDEN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Inductor array" was invented by Takayuki Arai (Tokyo), Naoya Terauchi (Tokyo) and Tomoo Kashiwa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor array according to one or more embodiments of the invention includes: a plurality of internal conductors spaced apart from each other along a reference axis; a magnetic base body; a plurality of first external electrodes each connected to one end of associated one of the plurality of internal conductors; and a plurality of second external electrodes each connected to the other end of associated one of the plurality of in...