ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,564, issued on April 7, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor and paste for producing bump" was invented by Kota Zenzai (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Noriko Yamamoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yusuke Kamata (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Shinobu Chikuma (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including a dielectric layer and an inner electrode layer alternately laminated, an outer electrode layer on each of two end surfaces at both ends in a length direction perpendicular to a lamination direction of the multilayer body and covering en...