ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,986, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrolytic capacitor and method for producing same" was invented by Shinji Kondou (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuya Yamasaki (Kyoto, Japan), Takashi Kawasaki (Osaka, Japan), Koji Yokoyama (Miyagi, Japan), Hitoshi Ishimoto (Hyogo, Japan), Yoshihisa Nagasaki (Osaka, Japan) and Yuji Miyachi (Saga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrolytic capacitor includes an anode body, a dielectric layer covering the anode body, a first solid electrolyte layer covering the dielectric layer, and a second solid electrolyte layer covering the ...