ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,031, issued on July 28, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Cylindrical capacitor" was invented by Chun Lin Lu (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Kai Hung Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a cylindrical capacitor. The cylindrical capacitor includes a first electrode, a dielectric layer, and a second electrode. The first electrode has a shape of a hollow cylinder and includes oxidized surface portions, first metal-containing layers, and a first hard layer. The oxidized surface portions are at cylindrical surfaces of the hollow cylinder of the first ele...