ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,716, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Coil component" was invented by Hokuto Eda (Tokyo), Hitoshi Ohkubo (Tokyo), Masazumi Arata (Tokyo), Masataro Saito (Tokyo), Kohei Takahashi (Tokyo) and Takamasa Iwasaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a coil component, coupling coefficient is improved. In the coil component, the coupling position between the outer end portion of the first planar coil and the first lead-out portion is biased toward the second lead-out portion with respect to the center line of the first lead-out portion, whereby the length of the second planar coil not alongside with the outermost tu...