ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,157, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Junichi Kawasaki (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Shoji Fukui (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 electrode layers laminated therein, and two external electrodes respectively provided on two end surfaces of the multilayer body. As seen in a plane including a width and a lamination direction in a middle portion in a length direction, among the internal electrode layers, end portions in the width direction of ...