US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Oct. 28 for "Multilayer ceramic capacitor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,580, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Toru Wakamatsu (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Daisuke Hamada (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a multilayer ceramic capacitor including first and second inner electrodes alternately arranged with respect to a stacking direction of a multilayer body, a polarity based on a direction of voltage applied between a first outer electrode and a second outer electrode is determined such that the first inner electrodes function as positive electrodes and the second inner electrodes function as negativ...