ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,129, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor including a depression on an outer surface of the body in which an external electrode is disposed" was invented by Won Su Son (Suwon-si, South Korea), Myeong Hak Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ki Pyo Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a body including a capacitance region in which a first internal electrode and a second internal electrode are alternately stacked in a first direction with a dielectric layer interposed therebetween and first...