ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,067, issued on July 14, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multilayer coil component" was invented by Xuran Guo (Tokyo), Kazuya Tobita (Tokyo), Youichi Kazuta (Tokyo), Yuichi Takubo (Tokyo), Yuto Shiga (Tokyo), So Kobayashi (Tokyo), Toshinori Matsuura (Tokyo), Noriaki Hamachi (Tokyo), Junichiro Urabe (Tokyo) and Shunya Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer coil component includes an element body including a main surface, first and second external electrodes disposed on the main surface, a coil disposed in the element body, a first connection conductor connecting the first external electrode and the coil, and a se...