US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on April 22 for "Multilayer ceramic capacitor and method of manufacturing multilayer ceramic capacitor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,427, issued on April 22, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor and method of manufacturing multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Shinobu Chikuma (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a capacitor main body including a multilayer body in which dielectric layers and internal electrode layers are alternately laminated, and external electrodes respectively on two end surfaces of the multilayer body and connected to the internal electrode layers, an interposer at a board mounting surface of the capacitor main body, and an insula...