ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,047, issued on Nov. 18, 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 included in inner electrodes of a multilayer ceramic capacitor is fired and includes a conductive metal powder, a ceramic powder, an organic solvent, and an organic binder. The conductive metal powder includes copper, and at least a portion of the ceramic powder is a powder of at least one oxide of an ABO3 type with a specified ionic radius in which a ratio of a six-coordinate ionic radius of a...