ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,791, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to KYOCERA AVX Components Corp. (Fountain Inn, S.C.).

"Multilayer capacitor" was invented by Marianne Berolini (Greer, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a multilayer capacitor, a circuit board containing the multilayer capacitor, and an integrated circuit package containing the multilayer capacitor. A multilayer capacitor includes a body having top, bottom, opposing side, and opposing end surfaces and containing alternating dielectric layers and internal electrode layers. Each internal electrode layer includes at least one lead tab extending from each of a to...