US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Nov. 3 for "Multilayer ceramic capacitor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,986, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Kazuhiro Nishibayashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yuko Kawasaki (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a multilayer ceramic capacitor is viewed as a section of a central portion in a width direction cut parallel or substantially parallel or substantially parallel or substantially parallel to a side surface, in an internal electrode layer in a central portion in a lamination direction and including an extremity spaced apart from an end surface, any one of five segments of the internal electrode...