ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,701, issued on June 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Multilayered ceramic capacitor" was invented by Chae Min Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yong-Won Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngjun Cha (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seonho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor may include: a ceramic body that includes dielectric layers and internal electrodes; an external electrode including a connection portion that covers an end surface of the ceramic body and a band portion that extends from the connection portion to cover a side surface of the cera...