ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,086, issued on July 14, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrolytic capacitor" was invented by Takehiro Kobayashi (Osaka Fu, Japan), Kazuhiro Takatani (Hyogo Ken, Japan) and Hiroyuki Arima (Osaka Fu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electrolytic capacitor including a capacitor element and a liquid component. The capacitor element includes an anode foil having a dielectric layer on a surface of the anode foil, and a conductive polymer component in contact with at least a portion of the dielectric layer. The conductive polymer component contains a self-doped condu...