ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,712, issued on June 9, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrolytic capacitor" was invented by Takayuki Matsumoto (Saga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrolytic capacitor including-includes an anode body that is porous, an anode wire including a buried part buried in the anode body and a protrusion part protruding to an outside of the anode body, a dielectric layer disposed on a surface of the anode body, a cathode part covering at least a part of the dielectric layer, an anode terminal electrically connected to the anode wire, and a cathode terminal electrically connec...