ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,146, issued on May 20, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Multilayer varistor" was invented by Yuto Akiyama (Hokkaido, Japan), Ken Yanai (Hokkaido, Japan), Ryosuke Usui (Hokkaido, Japan) and Yuji Yamagishi (Hokkaido, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer varistor includes: a sintered compact; an internal electrode provided inside the sintered compact; a high-resistivity layer arranged to cover the sintered compact at least partially and containing element Si; and an external electrode arranged to cover the high-resistivity layer partially, electrically connected to the int...