US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Aug. 4 for "Multilayer ceramic capacitor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,544, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Satoshi Muramatsu (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a stacked body and external electrodes. The stacked body includes stacked dielectric layers and internal electrodes. The external electrodes are disposed on lateral surfaces of the stacked body and are connected to the internal electrodes. The dielectric layers include outer layer portions and an effective layer portion. Each outer layer portion is adjacent to a corresponding main surface of the sta...