ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,047, issued on July 14, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic component" was invented by Yuto Akiyama (Hokkaido, Japan), Sayaka Watanabe (Hokkaido, Japan) and Yuji Yamagishi (Hokkaido, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic component according to the present disclosure includes a sintered body, a plurality of internal electrodes, and a side surface electrode. The side surface electrode includes: a primary electrode layer containing silver as a main component thereof; and a plating layer covering the primary electrode layer at least partially. The pri...