ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,036, issued on June 30, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Shota Tateishi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Satoshi Fukuda (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Daisuke Fukuda (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Tomohiro Kageyama (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a multilayer ceramic capacitor, a plurality of internal electrode layers include a first internal electrode layer, a second internal electrode layer, and an intermediate electrode layer. A coverage of the intermediate electrode layer is higher than a coverage of the first internal electrode layer and the second internal elec...