US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on March 18 for "Electrolytic capacitor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,027, issued on March 18, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrolytic capacitor" was invented by Takayuki Matsumoto (Saga, Japan) and Nobuhiro Tanigaki (Saga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element having bottom surface and upper surface and including an anode lead, a cathode lead terminal, and outer packaging resin. The cathode lead terminal includes a cathode terminal having an exposed surface exposed from bottom surface, and two cathode anchor portions each extending from the cathode terminal to be embedded in the outer packa...