ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,159, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NGK ELECTRONICS DEVICES INC. (Mine, Japan) and NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Ceramic wiring member" was invented by Hiroshi Kouno (Mine, Japan) and Atsushi Mase (Mine, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electroconductive portion has a structure including: an electroconductive phase, which is made of a metal component containing at least one of W or Mo and has a plurality of air gaps dispersed so as to be separated from each other; and glass phases, which are contained in at least some of the plurality of air gaps and have an area ratio of 3% or more and 20% or less on a cross sectio...