US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on March 17 for "Method for aligning multilayer components and method for manufacturing multilayer ceramic electronic components including alignment method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,131, issued on March 17, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method for aligning multilayer components and method for manufacturing multilayer ceramic electronic components including alignment method" was invented by Hisashi Sato (Kirishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Base components are placed into recesses of a holder. Each recess includes a flat bottom surface parallel to a horizontal direction. A lid is placed above the holder at a predetermined distance from the bottom surface. A magnetic field with a magnetic flux line intersecting perpendicularly with the bottom surface is caused to act on the base compon...