US Patent Issued to TDK on Aug. 4 for "Multilayer ceramic electronic component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,540, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multilayer ceramic electronic component" was invented by Yasuhide Yamashita (Tokyo) and Kotaro Terao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal electrode layer includes therein a plurality of inner ceramic particles within an observation range of a cross-section intersecting the internal electrode layer. The position of the inner ceramic particles in the internal electrode layer relative to the center position of the internal electrode layer in the thickness direction is correlated with the position from the center position to the edge position, and the corresponding po...