ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,941, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Dielectric ceramic composition and multilayer ceramic capacitor comprising same" was invented by Kyung Sik Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ji Hong Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dielectric ceramic composition and a multilayer ceramic capacitor including the same are provided, the dielectric ceramic composition includes a BaTiO3-based base material main component and a subcomponent, wherein the subcomponent includes zinc oxide (ZnO) as a first subcomponent, and the content of the ZnO is 0.1 mol % or more and l...