US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on June 9 for "Electronic component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,683, issued on June 9, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Electronic component" was invented by Kojiro Tokieda (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hideyuki Suzuki (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Koichi Yamada (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Miki Sasaki (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic component includes a ceramic body, and an external electrode on the ceramic body, the external electrode includes a base layer continuously covering an end surface of the ceramic body and a portion of a side surface bordering the end surface, and a plating layer covering the base layer, the ceramic body includes a recess open on ...