US Patent Issued to TDK on Nov. 3 for "Electronic component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,990, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic component" was invented by Shogo Sasaki (Tokyo), Kazuhiro Okada (Tokyo), Keiichi Takizawa (Tokyo) and Yoshitaka Nagashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic component includes, a first internal electrode disposed in the element body and connected to the first terminal electrode, a second internal electrode disposed in the element body and connected to the second terminal electrode, a dissimilar material layer disposed in the element body and containing a material different from the element body, in which the first internal electrode and the second i...