ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,435, issued on April 22, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Solid electrolytic capacitor and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Kei Hirota (Okayama, Japan), Kyohei Iwaoka (Kyoto, Japan), Hitoshi Fukui (Nara, Japan), Daisuke Usa (Osaka, Japan), Kouta Muneyasu (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroki Nagayama (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element. The capacitor element includes an anode foil including a base material part and a porous part disposed on a surface of the base material part, a dielectric layer disposed on at lea...