ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,372, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor with patterned electrodes" was invented by Gyuho Yeon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chaedong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seung Ah Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Chulseung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body having a preset size of length, width, and thickness, first and second external electrodes respectively including body portions covering both end portions spaced apart from each other in a length direction of the ceramic body and ...