ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,245, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer electronic component" was invented by Hisashi Sato (Kirishima, Japan), Tatsuya Suzuki (Kirishima, Japan), Daiki Tsurubayashi (Kirishima, Japan) and Tomoyuki Miwa (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer electronic component includes a multilayer body including inner electrodes and dielectric layers alternately stacked, underlying electrodes, and outer electrodes. The inner electrodes include first inner electrodes and second inner electrodes. The underlying electrodes include a first underlying electrode and a second underlying elec...