ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,995, issued on March 25, was assigned to TAIYO YUDEN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Ceramic electronic device and manufacturing method of the same" was invented by Kotaro Mizuno (Takasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer chip in which dielectric layers and internal electrode layers each including Ni as a main phase are alternately stacked. At least one of the dielectric layers includes Si. One of the internal electrode layers next to the at least one of the dielectric layers includes a layer including an additive element including one or more of Au, Pt, Cu, Fe, Cr, Zn, and In. A peak of a c...