ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,641, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Conductive paste" was invented by Takashi Ohara (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Hideyasu Onishi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conductive paste defining inner electrodes of a multilayer ceramic capacitor manufactured through a firing step, includes a conductive metal powder, a ceramic powder, an organic solvent, and an organic binder. At least a portion of the ceramic powder is a powder of at least one oxide of ABO3 type with a specified ionic radius in which a ratio of a six-coordinate ionic radius of an A-site element in ABO3 to a si...