ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,958, issued on April 1, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Electronic component and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Hiromitsu Ito (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yuichi Iida (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Isamu Utsunomiya (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic component includes a glass substrate having a glass body and a protruding crystallized portion, the glass body including a top surface, a bottom surface, and a first side surface connecting the bottom surface and the top surface to each other, and the first side surface having the crystallized portion; a colored insulation lay...