US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Nov. 3 for "Electronic component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,981, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Electronic component" was invented by Kazuyuki Yamamoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hiroki Homma (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Sui Uno (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Mitsunori Inoue (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 provided at an end of the ceramic body. Two adjacent side surfaces and an end surface of the ceramic body are in contact with each other to define a corner of the ceramic body, the external electrode includes a base layer covering the end surface and side surfaces includi...