US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on June 30 for "Glass ceramic and laminated ceramic electronic component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,530, issued on June 30, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Glass ceramic and laminated ceramic electronic component" was invented by Yasutaka Sugimoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Taichi Watanabe (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass ceramic that contains a glass containing Si, B, Al, and Zn and aggregates. The glass has a SiO2 content of 20% by weight to 55% by weight, a B2O3 content of 15% by weight to 30% by weight, Al2O3, and ZnO, wherein a weight ratio of the SiO2 to the B2O3 (SiO2/B2O3) is 1.21 or higher, and a weight ratio of the Al2O3 to the ZnO (Al2O3/ZnO) is 0.8 to 1.3. A TiO2...