ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,270, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Multilayered ceramic capacitor including an external electrode having a non-conductive resin layer and a conductive resin layer" was invented by Hyejin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byungwoo Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangwook Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seung-Hun Han (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jungmin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a ceramic main body; a plurality of first internal electrodes and a plurality of second internal electrodes that are dispo...