ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,243, issued on April 21, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Yuuichi Araki (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including an effective layer-width direction-end portion, an effective layer-middle portion, and a rare earth segregation region in which a rare earth element is segregated. A relationship between a segregation amount of a rare earth element in the rare earth segregation region in the effective layer-width direction-end portion and a segregation amount of a rare earth element in th...