ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,776, issued on July 8, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Multilayer varistor" was invented by Yuji Yamagishi (Hokkaido, Japan), Yoshiyuki Satou (Hokkaido, Japan) and Naoki Mutou (Hokkaido, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer varistor according to the present disclosure includes a sintered compact, at least one pair of internal electrodes, and at least one pair of external electrodes. The sintered compact contains at least a Zn oxide and a Pr oxide. The at least one pair of internal electrodes are provided inside the sintered compact and contain, as a main component, at l...