US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on June 23 for "Multilayer ceramic capacitor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,135, issued on June 23, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Hiroyuki Aoyama (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Ryota Karaya (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer assembly including unit multilayer bodies each including internal electrode layers and internal dielectric layers, and external electrodes at corners of the multilayer assembly. Each of the unit multilayer bodies and two of the external electrodes define a unit capacitor, and the multilayer ceramic capacitor includes multiple unit capacitors. For the...