US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on March 17 for "Multilayer varistor and method for manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,105, issued on March 17, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Multilayer varistor and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Keiji Kawajiri (Hokkaido, Japan), Naoki Mutou (Hokkaido, Japan), Hironori Motomitsu (Osaka, Japan), Michiya Watanabe (Hokkaido, Japan), Yuji Yamagishi (Hokkaido, Japan) and Yasuhiro Nishimura (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer varistor includes a sintered body, a first external electrode, a second external electrode, a first internal electrode, a second internal electrode, and a high-resistivity portion. The first internal elect...