ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,542, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TAIYO YUDEN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Ceramic electronic device and manufacturing method of the same" was invented by Yoichi Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer structure having a parallelepiped shape in which a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked in a vertical direction, the plurality of internal electrode layers being alternately exposed to two end faces of the parallelepiped shape. A side margin section is a section covering edges of the plurality of internal electrode layers in ...