ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,312, issued on May 26, was assigned to TAIYO YUDEN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Ceramic electronic device with intermittantly provided conductive thin film and manufacturing method of the same" was invented by Yoshinari Take (Tokyo), Junko Sakashita (Tokyo) and Kenichi Shimomai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer chip in which each of a plurality of dielectric layers and each of a plurality of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked, the multilayer chip having a parallelepiped rectangular shape, the plurality of internal electrode layers being alternately exposed to two opposite face...