ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,565, issued on April 7, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Multilayer electronic component" was invented by Daisuke Fukuda (Kirishima, Japan), Daiki Tsurubayashi (Kirishima, Japan) and Tatsuya Suzuki (Kirishima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer electronic component includes a multilayer body including stacked inner electrodes and dielectric layers, underlying electrodes, and outer electrodes. The inner electrodes include a first inner electrode and a second inner electrode, the underlying electrodes include a first underlying electrode and a second underlying electrode, and the outer electrodes include a ...