ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,985, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Multilayer ceramic capacitor including via conductors arranged in a matrix" was invented by Kengo Kakomura (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yukihiro Fujita (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Seiji Hidaka (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a capacitor body including dielectric layers, first and second inner electrodes, first and second via conductors, and first and second outer electrodes. In a reference layout in which mxn (m and n are each a natural number of 4 or more) virtual lattice points are set in a view of the ...