US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on July 14 for "Multilayer varistor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,046, issued on July 14, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Multilayer varistor" was invented by Yuto Akiyama (Hokkaido, Japan), Ken Yanai (Hokkaido, Japan), Masashi Takamura (Hokkaido, Japan), Yuji Yamagishi (Hokkaido, Japan) and Ryosuke Usui (Hokkaido, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer varistor according to the present disclosure includes: a sintered compact having, on a surface thereof, at least one planar portion and at least one corner portion; an internal electrode provided inside the sintered compact; a high-resistivity layer arranged to cover the at least one pl...