US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Sept. 29 for "Multilayer ceramic capacitor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,627, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Shinobu Chikuma (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 end surfaces in a length direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a lamination direction of the multilayer body, and each connected to the internal electrode layers. A surface, in a plan view in the length direction, of each of t...