ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,881, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Multilayered capacitor and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Kyeongmo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyung Duk Yun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeongmo Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hoin Jun (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a multilayered capacitor including a capacitor body including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode, and an external electrode outside the capacitor body, wherein the external electrode includes a first layer disposed outside the capacitor body and including...