US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on July 14 for "Multilayer ceramic capacitor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,082, issued on July 14, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Tatsunori Yasuda (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Kazuki Kurokawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer body including first and second internal electrode layers alternately laminated with ceramic layers and exposed at one of first and second end surfaces, first step layers on a same plane as a respective one of the second internal electrode layers and exposed at the first end surface, and second step layers on a same plane as a respecti...