ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,131, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic component" was invented by Takuya Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an electronic component, a plurality of conductor layers extend in a direction that intersects a coil axis and that is along insulator layers. Each of the plurality of connection conductors is connected to a corresponding conductor layer among the plurality of conductor layers, and extends in a stacking direction. In the conductor layers adjacent to each other in a direction along the coil axis among the plurality of conductor layers, a width in a direction orthogonal to an extending d...