ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,051, issued on April 15, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Yuu Mikami (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Tatsuya Izumi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including laminated dielectric layers, internal electrode layers on the dielectric layers, first and second main surfaces opposed to each other in a lamination direction, first and second lateral surfaces opposed to each other in a width direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the lamination direction, and first and second end surfaces o...