ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,571, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Solid-electrolyte capacitor and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Syusaku Koie (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid electrolytic capacitor includes at least one solid electrolytic capacitor element that includes an anode body having a sheet shape and including a porous part in a surface layer of the anode body, a dielectric layer covering at least a part of the porous part, and a cathode part. The cathode part includes a solid electrolyte layer covering at least a part of the dielectric layer. The ...