ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,156, issued on March 24, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multilayered filter device" was invented by Takuya Sato (Tokyo) and Yuki Matsumoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter device includes a plurality of resonators and a stack. The plurality of resonators include a first parallel resonator and a first serial resonator. The first parallel resonator includes a conductor structure wound around an axis extending in a direction orthogonal to a stacking direction. The first serial resonator includes a conductor layer wound around an axis extending in a direction parallel to the stacking direction. The conductor layer inc...