US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on June 3 for "Multilayer ceramic capacitor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,551, issued on June 3, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Takumi Endou (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Sho Watanabe (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Akito Mori (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Masahiro Wakashima (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes dielectric layers made of a ceramic material and internal electrode layers laminated therein. The internal electrode layers each include dielectric columns provided therein. A solid solution layer in which S is solidly dissolved is provided at an interface between each of the dielectric columns an...