ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,267, issued on June 17, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Kotaro Kishi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Satoshi Muramatsu (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body having a dimensional relationship of the dimension in the width direction is greater than the dimension in the length direction which is greater than the dimension in the height direction. The dimension in the width direction of a third surface portion of a first external electrode is smaller than the dimension in the width direction of a firs...