ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,622, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Kwang Dong Seong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngah Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Bonggyu Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dokyeong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaehoon Bang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Wansik 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 an active portion including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers that are alternately disposed, and cover porti...