ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,022, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Multilayer varistor and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Michiya Watanabe (Hokkaido, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sintered body has a first end face and a second end face opposite to each other in a first direction and a first side face and a second side face opposite to each other in a second direction. A first end face electrode is disposed on the first end face except for end portions of the first end face in the second direction. A second end face electrode is disposed on the second end face except...