US Patent Issued to TDK on Oct. 20 for "Electronic component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,792, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic component" was invented by Natsumi Kato (Tokyo), Ken Morita (Tokyo), Shinya Onodera (Tokyo) and Yuichi Nagai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic component includes an element body, a plurality of internal conductors in the element body, and a plurality of external electrodes on the element body, and an electrical insulator on the element body. The element body includes a main surface and a pair of end surfaces. The plurality of internal conductors are exposed to a corresponding end surface of the pair of end surfaces. The plurality of external elec...