ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,045, issued on July 14, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Multilayer varistor" was invented by Yuto Akiyama (Hokkaido, Japan), Masashi Takamura (Hokkaido, Japan) and Ken Yanai (Hokkaido, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present disclosure is to provide a multilayer varistor with the ability to reduce the chances of causing crosstalk between external terminals. Inside a sintered body having the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped, of which the longitudinal axis is aligned with a first direction, a first facing portion and a second facing portion are provided to ...