ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,228, issued on April 14, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Kenta Hirai (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including inner dielectric layers and internal electrode layers laminated therein, and external electrodes. Each of the inner dielectric layers includes a middle region at a middle portion and end regions at end portions in the length direction. A thickness of each of the inner dielectric layers is defined as Td, the middle region includes a first region with a dimension in the lengt...