ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,743, issued on March 17, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic component and apparatus" was invented by Kazuhiro Yoshikawa (Tokyo), Takeshi Oohashi (Tokyo), Koichi Tsunoda (Tokyo) and Mitsuhiro Tomikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an electronic component that includes: a substrate; a capacitor on the substrate; a first insulating resin layer embedding therein the capacitor; an inductor provided on the first insulating resin layer and connected to the capacitor, the inductor including a conductor pattern; a second insulating resin layer embedding therein the inductor; a third insulating resin la...