ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,271, issued on May 12, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic component" was invented by Yu Fukae (Tokyo), Tomoya Hanai (Tokyo), Yusuke Oba (Tokyo), Kenichi Yoshida (Tokyo), Katsuharu Yasuda (Tokyo) and Takashi Ohtsuka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To prevent interfacial peeling due to the stress of an insulating layer in a capacitor-inductor integrated electronic component having three or more conductor layers. An electronic component includes: a conductor layer M1 including a conductor pattern constituting an inductor; a conductor pattern overlapping a part of the conductor pattern through a dielectric film; an insul...