ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,488, issued on July 29, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Electronic component" was invented by Satoshi Yokomizo (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Shinobu Chikuma (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yohei Mukobata (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic component includes an electronic element and an interposer board. The electronic element includes a multilayer body and external electrodes at multilayer body end surfaces of the multilayer body and connected to internal electrode layers. One of the board main surfaces is in a vicinity of the electronic element and joined with a multilayer body main surface...