US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on May 20 for "Multilayer ceramic capacitor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,175, issued on May 20, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Togo Matsui (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yukito Nishimura (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 laminated therein, and external electrodes respectively on a first end surface and a second end surface of the multilayer body in a length direction intersecting a lamination direction. The internal electrodes each include an opposing portion, a thick portion extending from the oppos...