ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,923, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TAIYO YUDEN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Multilayer ceramic electronic device with zirconium" was invented by Yasuhiro Matsumoto (Tokyo), Koichiro Morita (Tokyo) and Yuta Fuse (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic electronic device includes a plurality of internal electrode layers that face each other; and a plurality of dielectric layers, each of which is sandwiched by each two of the plurality of internal electrode layers. A main component of the plurality of dielectric layers is barium titanate zirconate. In each of the plurality of dielectric layers, an amount of zirconium is 2 at ...