US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on April 1 for "Multilayer ceramic capacitor and mounting structure of multilayer ceramic capacitor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,477, issued on April 1, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor and mounting structure of multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Kazuhiro Nishibayashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-terminal multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a first internal electrode layer including a first counter electrode portion opposite to a second internal electrode layer, a first drawn electrode portion extending from the first counter electrode portion to a first end surface, and a second drawn electrode portion extending from the first counter electrode portion to a se...