US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on July 21 for "Multilayer ceramic capacitor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,973, issued on July 21, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Tomoaki Hirai (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 layers and internal electrode layers laminated on each other, and first and second external electrodes. The internal electrode layers include first and second internal electrode layers each respectively electrically connected to the first and second external electrodes. The first and second internal electrode layers include holes with different area equivalent ...