ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,266, issued on June 17, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electronic component, electronic component manufacturing method, capacitor, and capacitor manufacturing method" was invented by Hiroki Takeoka (Nara, Japan), Takayuki Hattori (Osaka, Japan) and Yukihiro Shimasaki (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic component includes an electronic component element and a barrier film. The electronic component element has external electrodes at both ends thereof. The barrier film covers at least a part of a periphery of the electronic component element. The barrier film i...