ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,242, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing multilayer ceramic electronic component, and multilayer ceramic electronic component" was invented by Shinji Otani (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Hidehiko Tanaka (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a multilayer ceramic electronic component includes preparing a ceramic green sheet, forming a plurality of internal electrode patterns on a main surface of the ceramic green sheet, applying a ceramic paste above the main surface of the ceramic green sheet, stacking a plurality of the ceramic green ...