ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,948, issued on June 24, was assigned to TAIYO YUDEN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Multilayer ceramic capacitor" was invented by Masaki Saito (Tokyo), Keisuke Ishii (Tokyo) and Takayuki Hattori (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body including an electrode-stacked portion having first and second internal electrodes that are alternately stacked along a first axis direction, wherein the first internal electrodes include a first inner-layer internal electrode and a first outer-layer internal electrode that is absent at and adjacent to a position corresponding to at least one of four corners of th...