ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,560, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Capacitor component" was invented by Han Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sang Jong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Min Cheol Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Su Bong Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, since the outer electrode of the first unit device and the outer electrode of the second unit device may have different polarities, capacitance may be generated in each of the first unit device and the second unit device and capacitance may be generated between the f...