ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,539, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method for fabricating multilayer ceramic electronic component" was invented by Young Joon Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seong Han Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jeong Ryeol Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a multilayer ceramic electronic component, includes: an operation of forming a conductive paste for internal electrodes on a ceramic green sheet; an operation of forming a ceramic laminate by laminating a plurality of the ceramic green sheets; an operation of forming a ceramic bod...