US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on June 10 for "Capacitor having a through-hole exposing an electrode and at least one protrusion in the through-hole" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,689, issued on June 10, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Capacitor having a through-hole exposing an electrode and at least one protrusion in the through-hole" was invented by Hiroshi Matsubara (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Masatomi Harada (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Takeshi Kagawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitor that includes a substrate having a surface; a lower electrode opposing the surface of the substrate; a dielectric film on the lower electrode; an upper electrode on the dielectric film; a protective layer on the lower electrode, the dielectric film, and the upper electrode,...