ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,222, issued on April 14, was assigned to HRL LABORATORIES LLC (Malibu, Calif.).

"Ceramic body with embedded capacitor" was invented by Tobias Schaedler (Oak Park, Calif.), Ekaterina Stonkevitch (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Scott E. Macintosh (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Gregory Jacques (Camarillo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceramic body with an embedded capacitor. In some embodiments, a device includes: a ceramic body composed of a ceramic material; a first capacitor within the ceramic body; a first conductive trace; and a second conductive trace, the first capacitor including: one or more ceramic dielectric layers; two or mor...