ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,535, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Hyuk Jin Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Young Hoon Song (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a body including a capacitance region in which a plurality of first internal electrodes and a plurality of second internal electrodes are alternately stacked in a first direction with a dielectric layer interposed therebetween, and first and second external electrodes disposed on the body and spaced apart from each other to be connected to ...