ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,035, issued on July 28, was assigned to NIPPON CHEMI-CON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Capacitor having a cathode foil including a carbon layer and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Kouta Fukushima (Tokyo), Yuki Osuga (Tokyo), Keisuke Tanabe (Tokyo), Shoma Itagaki (Tokyo), Hideyuki Omichi (Tokyo) and Masayuki Tarumi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitor includes: a cathode foil including a carbon layer disposed at a surface of a base material foil; and a lead-out terminal including a flat portion connected to the cathode foil by stitch connection at a stitch connection portion, and a thickness of the stitch connection port...