ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,651, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TAIYO YUDEN Co. LTD (Tokyo).
"Ceramic electronic component and manufacturing method of the same" was invented by Yoichi Kato (Takasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer structure having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers that are alternately stacked, the dielectric layers being mainly composed of ceramic, the internal electrode layers being formed so as to be alternately exposed to two edge faces opposite to each other of the multilayer structure, and cover layers...