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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,796, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Hideaki Tanaka (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Daiki Fukunaga (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Koji Moriyama (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a laminated body and first and second external electrodes respectively on both end surfaces of the laminated body. When regions where first internal electrodes or second internal electrodes are not present are regarded as side margin portions in a cross section of the laminated body as viewed from the laminating direction, the ...