ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,399, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Laminated ceramic component" was invented by Yuto Akiyama (Hokkaido, Japan), Yasutaka Hanashiro (Hokkaido, Japan) and Keiji Kawajiri (Hokkaido, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminated ceramic component includes a sintered body, internal electrodes provided inside the sintered body, and external electrodes provided on a surface of the sintered body and electrically connected to the internal electrodes. The external electrodes include a first end-surface electrode provided on at least a portion of a first end surface ...