ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,502, issued on July 29, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor including curved boundary" was invented by Taro Sakai (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a laminate and an external electrode. The laminate includes a central layer portion in which first and second internal electrode layers are alternately laminated with a dielectric ceramic layer therebetween, a peripheral layer portion sandwiching the central layer portion in the lamination direction, and a side margin sandwiching the central layer portion and the peripheral laye...