ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,067, issued on June 16, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and KOREA INSTITUTE OF CERAMIC ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Jinju-si, South Korea).

"High permittivity antiferroelectric and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Hyung Suk Kim (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea), Hyo Soon Shin (Jinju-si, South Korea), Dong Hun Yeo (Seoul, South Korea) and Jeoung Sik Choi (Changwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high permittivity antiferroelectric composition and a manufacturing method thereof aim to provide an antiferroelectric, which has a PbxLa1-x([Zr1-YSnY]ZTi1-Z) ...