US Patent Issued to Rohm on June 23 for "Chip resistor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,109, issued on June 23, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Chip resistor" was invented by Takuya Maekawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chip resistor includes a substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, a first resistor body, a second resistor body, and a connection electrode. The substrate includes a first primary surface. The first electrode includes a first terminal electrode and a first auxiliary electrode. The second electrode includes a second terminal electrode and a second auxiliary electrode. The first auxiliary electrode has a larger area than the first terminal electrode and the second a...