ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,373, issued on June 16, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing an electrical device with an anodic porous oxide region delimited by planarizing a stack of materials" was invented by Brigitte Soulier (Grenoble, France), Frederic Voiron (Barraux, France) and Julien El Sabahy (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing an electrical device that includes: anodizing a portion of an anodizable metal layer so as to obtain an anodic porous oxide region and an anodizable metal region adjoining the anodic porous oxide region, the anodic porous oxide region be...