ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,165, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Capacitor, electric circuit, circuit board, and apparatus" was invented by Tomoyasu Yokoyama (Osaka, Japan), Kosei Ohura (Osaka, Japan) and Ryosuke Kikuchi (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 a compound having an inverted perovskite structure. The inverted perovskite structure of this compound has a portion in which a cation is present ...