ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,979, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Yuta Oshima (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Shinya Isota (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Sho Watanabe (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes an element body portion and a pair of outer electrodes on first and second end surfaces and connected to inner electrode layers. The element body portion includes first and second side margin portions, and first and second outer layer portions, and an inner layer portion. A dielectric includes dielectric particles including barium and ...