ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,024, issued on March 18, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Capacitor with barium titanate dielectric layers" was invented by Maiko Nagayoshi (Kirishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitor includes a stack and an external electrode located on a surface of the stack. The stack includes a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrode layers alternately stacked on one another. Crystal grains include first crystal grains having a small grain size and second crystal grains having a larger grain size. The first crystal grains satisfy 0.13 micro metreless than equal tod1greater than0.30 micr...