ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,040, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Saras Micro Devices Inc. (Atlanta).

"Planar high-density aluminum capacitors for stacking and embedding" was invented by Venkatesh Sundaram (Atlanta), Markondeyaraj Pulugurtha (Atlanta), Dewei Zhu (Atlanta), Thomas J. Beck (Atlanta), Courtney Timms (Atlanta), Mary Pickens (Atlanta), Urmi Ray (Atlanta), Bart Deprospo (Atlanta), Kyle Dasch (Atlanta), Jen-Chwen Lin (Atlanta), Rajesh Gopalaswamy (Atlanta) and Kevin Mark Johnson (Merritt Island, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-terminal capacitor devices and methods of making multi-terminal capacitor devices are described herein. The multi-...