US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Sept. 23 for "Multilayer ceramic capacitor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,386, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Shinobu Chikuma (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a capacitor body including a stack of alternating dielectric layers and internal electrode layers, and external electrodes on both end surfaces in a length direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a stacking direction of the stack and connected to the internal electrode layers, the external electrodes each including an the underlying electrode layer and a first plating layer on an...