ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,582, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Kotaro Kishi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Satoshi Muramatsu (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body in which a dimension in a width directionless thana dimension in a length directionless thana dimension in a height direction is satisfied. A dimension in the length direction of each of lateral surface exposed portions is about 10% or more and about 44% or less with respect to the dimension in the length direction. A dimension of the external...