US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Jan. 20 for "Dielectric body, capacitor, electric circuit, circuit board, and device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,189, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Dielectric body, capacitor, electric circuit, circuit board, and device" was invented by Hisanori Mashiko (Osaka, Japan), Hideaki Adachi (Osaka, Japan), Michio Suzuka (Kyoto, Japan), Takehito Goto (Osaka, Japan), Ryosuke Kikuchi (Osaka, Japan) and Manabu Kanou (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dielectric of the present disclosure includes a tantalum compound containing fluorine and oxygen and being amorphous, and is advantageous in terms of achieving a high dielectric constant."

The patent was filed on Oct. 12, 2...