ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,554, issued on April 7, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Electronic component" was invented by Kazuhiro Yoshikawa (Tokyo), Takeshi Oohashi (Tokyo), Mitsuhiro Tomikawa (Tokyo) and Koichi Tsunoda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an electronic component that includes an element body having a structure in which a plurality of conductor layers are stacked in a first direction on a surface of a substrate with insulating layers interposed therebetween, and a plurality of terminal electrodes provided on a mounting surface of the element body. The mounting surface extends in the first direction and in a second dire...