US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on July 29 for "Multilayer varistor and method of manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,476, issued on July 29, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Multilayer varistor and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Yuto Akiyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer varistor includes a sintered body, an internal electrode disposed in the sintered body, a high-resistance layer covering at least part of the sintered body, and an external electrode covering part of the high-resistance layer, the external electrode being electrically connected to the internal electrode. An arithmetic mean roughness of a surface of the high-resistance layer is greater...