ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,735, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Capacitor, electric circuit, circuit board, apparatus, and power storage device" was invented by Hiroki Takeuchi (Osaka, Japan), Ryosuke Kikuchi (Osaka, Japan) and Kei Amii (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric. The dielectric is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The dielectric includes an oxide having a composition represented by Hf1-x-ySixGayOz. This composition satisfies requirements 0.01less than equal tox, 0.05...