ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,712, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor and method of fabricating the same" was invented by Byung Hyun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Eun Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Byeongjun Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a capacitor body including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode layer; and an external electrode disposed on the capacitor body. The capacitor body includes at least one lost portion defined as a region in which continuity of the internal electrode layer is discon...