ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,039, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to KYOCERA AVX Components Corp. (Fountain Inn, S.C.).

"Solid electrolytic capacitor containing an intrinsically conductive polymer" was invented by Miloslav Uher (Lanskroun, Czech Republic), Kiyofumi Aoki (Shiga, Japan) and Pavel Kucharczyk (Detmarovice, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid electrolytic capacitor containing a capacitor element is provided. The capacitor element contains a sintered porous anode body, a dielectric that overlies the anode body, a solid electrolyte that overlies the dielectric, and an external coating that overlies the solid electrolyte and includes c...