ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,224, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Multilayered capacitor with external electode including sintered metal layer and conductive resin layer" was invented by Seung Ah Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chaedong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gyuho Yeon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Byungjun Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayered capacitor includes a capacitor body including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode, and an external electrode having a connection portion and a band portion, wherein the external electrode includes a sintered me...