ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,975, issued on July 21, was assigned to TDK Electronics AG (Munich).

"Capacitor with laminated round-shaped bus bar" was invented by Tomas Wagner (Malaga, Spain), Fernando Rodriguez (Malaga, Spain), Alvaro Gonzalez (Alhaurin de la Torre, Spain), Adrian Arcas (Malaga, Spain) and Manuel Gomez (Coin, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bus bar for a capacitor is described, wherein the bus bar is laminated and wherein the bus bar includes a round shape. Furthermore, a capacitor including the bus bar is described."

The patent was filed on Oct. 11, 2022, under Application No. 18/710,483.

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