ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,442, issued on May 13, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Yasuyuki Shimada (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrodes alternately stacked on one another, and two external electrodes respectively on two end surfaces of the multilayer body. Each of the dielectric layers includes, at a location coincident with an end portion of a respective one of the internal electrodes, a thick-walled portion thicker in a stacking direction than a portion correspo...