US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Sept. 8 for "Multilayer ceramic capacitor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,734, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Hikaru Okuda (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a multilayer ceramic capacitor, a relationship of a length in a width direction of a main surface horizontal portion to a length in the width direction of external electrodes is about 0.26 or more and about 0.56 or less, a relationship of a length in a lamination direction of a lateral surface horizontal portion to a length in a lamination direction of each of the external electrodes is about 0.26 or more and about 0.56 or less, a relatio...