US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on June 24 for "Multilayer ceramic capacitor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,950, issued on June 24, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Keita Kitahara (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yuta Saito (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Noriyuki Ookawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Riyousuke Akazawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Takefumi Takahashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Masahiro Wakashima (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yuta Kurosu (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Akito Mori (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a multilayer ceramic capacitor, a positional deviation in a lamination direction between end portions in a width direction intersecting the lamination direction and a length direction,...