US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Oct. 7 for "Multilayer ceramic capacitor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,919, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Hideyasu Onishi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Takashi Ohara (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body that includes dielectric layers made of ceramic and stacked together and inner electrodes extending along multiple interfaces between the dielectric layers, with each inner electrode along a respective interface. The inner electrodes include at least one of NiTiO3, MgTiO3, or MnTiO3 besides a conductive metal. The inner electrodes preferably incl...