ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,128, issued on June 23, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Masashi Naora (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including an inner layer portion including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers that are laminated, two main surfaces opposed to each other in a lamination direction, two lateral surfaces opposed to each other in a width direction intersecting the lamination direction, two end surfaces opposed to each other in a length direction intersecting the lamination direction and th...