ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,134, issued on June 23, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Shinya Isota (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yuta Oshima (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Hideyuki Hashimoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including first and second main surfaces opposite to each other in a thickness direction, first and second side surfaces opposite to each other in a width direction, and first and second end surfaces opposite to each other in a length direction, the multilayer body including dielectric layers and inner electro...