ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,235, issued on June 17, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Multilayer varistor" was invented by Yuto Akiyama (Hokkaido, Japan), Ryosuke Usui (Hokkaido, Japan) and Ken Yanai (Hokkaido, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer varistor of the present disclosure includes a sintered body, a first internal electrode, a second internal electrode, a first external electrode, a second external electrode, and a high-resistance layer. The first internal electrode and the second internal electrode are disposed in the sintered body. The first external electrode is disposed on a surface o...