ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,345, issued on March 31, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Multilayer ceramic electronic device" was invented by Toshihiro Iguchi (Tokyo), Shinya Saito (Tokyo), Ayako Sato (Tokyo), Yasuo Watanabe (Tokyo), Takehisa Tamura (Tokyo) and Kenya Tamaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic electronic device includes an element body including a ceramic layer and an internal electrode layer, and an external electrode formed on an outer surface of the element body and electrically connected to part of the internal electrode layer. The external electrode includes a first layer in direct contact with the element body and ...