ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,967, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Coil component" was invented by Hokuto Eda (Tokyo), Masataro Saito (Tokyo), Kohei Takahashi (Tokyo), Takamasa Iwasaki (Tokyo), Hiroki Asafusa (Tokyo) and Takahiro Nemoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Since the coil body of the coil component includes a plurality of coils and the first coil is one of the plurality of coils included in the coil body, the current route from the external terminal of the first to the outer peripheral turn of the second coil portion where stray capacitance occurs is significantly shorter than the route of current flowing between the pair of ...