ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,377, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Chip resistor and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Kosaku Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chip resistor includes a resistive element, a first conductive underlying layer, a second conductive underlying layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The first electrode includes a first electrode layer. The second electrode includes a second electrode layer. A first electrical resistivity of the first conductive underlying layer is higher than a second electrical resistivity of the first electrode layer and higher than a thi...