US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Sept. 29 for "Laminated varistor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,601, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Laminated varistor" was invented by Masashi Takamura (Hokkaido, Japan), Ken Yanai (Hokkaido, Japan), Yuji Yamagishi (Hokkaido, Japan), Sayaka Watanabe (Hokkaido, Japan) and Yuto Akiyama (Hokkaido, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first internal electrode includes a pair of first connecting parts extending from a first end surface along a first direction to be connected to a first external electrode, and a first facing part provided between the pair of first connecting parts. A second internal electrode includes a pair ...