ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,261, issued on June 17, was assigned to KYOCERA AVX Components Corp. (Fountain Inn, S.C.).
"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Marianne Berolini (Greenville, S.C.), Cory Nelson (Simpsonville, S.C.), Seth Fuller (Mauldin, S.C.) and Alma Iris Cordova (Townville, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a multilayer ceramic capacitor. The multilayer ceramic capacitor has a first end and a second end that is spaced apart from the first end in a longitudinal direction that is perpendicular to a lateral direction wherein the lateral direction and longitudinal direction are each perpendicular to a ...