ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,960, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Coil component and method for producing thereof" was invented by Naoto Tsukamoto (Tokyo), Satoru Kurokawa (Tokyo), Tomohiko Aida (Tokyo), Masashi Gotoh (Tokyo), Hirofumi Sasaki (Tokyo) and Ryuji Ando (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil component includes an exterior body, a coil positioned inside the exterior body, and terminal electrodes arranged on a surface of the exterior body and connected to lead parts of the coil. The exterior body is a columnar shape or a polyhedron shape, and includes a first plane for arranging the terminal electrodes, a second plane opposin...