ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,947, issued on June 24, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Kosuke Onishi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Satoshi Muramatsu (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yukie Watanabe (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Ryo Nishimura (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body including ceramic layers, first internal electrodes, and second internal electrodes laminated in a height direction, a first external electrode on at least part of a first end surface and on part of a first main surface and not on a second main surface, the first external ele...