ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,020, issued on March 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Ceramic electronic component" was invented by Han Seong Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ga Young An (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceramic electronic component includes: a body including dielectric layers and internal electrodes; and external electrodes disposed on the body and connected to the internal electrodes, in which the dielectric layers include a plurality of dielectric crystal grains, an average number of dielectric crystal grains per unit thickness (1 micro metre) of the dielectric layers is 6 or...