US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on April 8 for "Multilayer ceramic electronic component including external electrode with multilayer structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,500, issued on April 8, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic electronic component including external electrode with multilayer structure" was invented by Satoshi Muramatsu (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Ken Tominaga (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes an external electrode including an underlying electrode layer, a lower plating layer on the underlying electrode layer at a first end surface and a second end surface, and an upper plating layer on the lower plating layer. The underlying electrode layer is a thin film electrode including at least...