ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,734, issued on March 24, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method of manufacturing solid electrolytic capacitor including exterior body that covers capacitor element" was invented by Renki Yamazaki (Osaka, Japan) and Takahiro Kumakawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitor element that has an anode body, a dielectric oxide film layer covering the anode body, and a cathode body formed on the dielectric oxide film layer; an exterior body that covers the capacitor element; a contact layer that is on an anode terminal, which is an end portion of the anode body, and has...