US Patent Issued to TDK on Sept. 8 for "Electronic component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,719, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic component" was invented by Masashi Shimoyasu (Tokyo), Yoji Tozawa (Tokyo), Akihiko Oide (Tokyo), Daiki Kato (Tokyo), Midori Kishimoto (Tokyo), Satoshi Takasu (Tokyo), Yo Saito (Yurihonjo-city, Japan), Rui Takahashi (Yurihonjo-city, Japan), Kenta Sasaki (Yurihonjo-city, Japan), Makoto Yoshino (Tokyo) and Kazuhiro Ebina (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic component has an element body; and an external electrode having a main body portion covering at least the second surface and a first wrapping-around portion wrapping around the third surface in the ...