ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,529, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Multilayer coil component" was invented by Yusuke Nagai (Tokyo), Hidekazu Sato (Tokyo), Kazuhiro Ebina (Tokyo), Kunihiko Kawasaki (Tokyo), Takahiro Sato (Tokyo), Kouichi Kakuda (Tokyo), Yuya Ishima (Tokyo), Shinichi Kondo (Tokyo), Shinichi Sato (Tokyo) and Masaki Takahashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a multilayer coil component, first and second conductor patterns respectively have parallel parts that overlap in a lamination direction and non-parallel parts that do not overlap. The parallel parts of the first and second conductor patterns of one set are intercon...