US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on June 10 for "Three-terminal multilayer ceramic capacitor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,683, issued on June 10, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Three-terminal multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Kazuhiro Nishibayashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Satoshi Ishitobi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Takashi Sawada (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yuko Kawasaki (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-terminal multilayer ceramic capacitor includes at least one surface electrode layer on a surface of a second internal electrode layer connected to a lateral surface external electrode. The surface electrode layer includes at least one of Sn, In, Ga, Zn, Bi, Pb, Fe, V, Y or Cu, which is different from...