ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,576, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor including monotectoid phase" was invented by Retsu Tahara (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Taeko Mishiro (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. A difference between an RGB value which reproduces a color tone of ends in a width direction y of a first and second main-surface-side outer layer portions of the multilayer body and an RGB value which reproduces a color tone of ends in the width direction of a first and second side-surface-...