ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,877, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to KYOCERA AVX Components Corp. (Fountain Inn, S.C.).
"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Jeffrey Cain (Greenville, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a multilayer capacitor and a circuit board containing the multilayer capacitor. The capacitor includes a main body containing a set of alternating dielectric layers and internal electrode layers. Each internal electrode layer includes a top edge, a bottom edge, and two side edges extending between the top and bottom edges that define a main body; at least one lead tab extending from the top edge; and ...