ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,559, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor and method of preparing the same" was invented by Nayoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunjun Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Changsoo Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Munseong Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Won Seok Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jungmin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a capacitor body that includes a dielectric layer and an internal electrode layer; and an external electrode that is disposed outside the capacitor body. The...