US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Oct. 20 for "Multilayer ceramic capacitor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,794, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Keita Kitahara (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Masahiro Wakashima (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Takefumi Takahashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yuuta Takagi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Syouta Ikebe (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers alternately laminated, and external electrodes each on a corresponding one of two end surfaces opposed to each other in a length direction perpendicular or substantially perpen...