ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,923, issued on July 15, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Passive component" was invented by Hisaki Kitagawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Koshi Himeda (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Jyou Kikura (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passive component includes a substrate having insulating properties and having a surface having a recess, a bottom electrode filling at least a portion of the recess, a dielectric film provided on a surface of the bottom electrode, and a top electrode opposite to the bottom electrode with the dielectric film interposed therebetween. In a height direction perpendicular to the ...