ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,419, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Tae Hyung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Nam Woon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyoju Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sanghyun Lee (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 dielectric layer includes a plurality of dielectric grains, at least one o...