ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,688, issued on June 10, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Electronic component" was invented by Haruki Kobayashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers laminated alternately on each other, and external electrode layers on both end surfaces of the multilayer body in a length direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to a lamination direction, and each connected to the internal electrode layers. The dielectric layers each include at least one of Ca, Zr, or Ti, the internal el...