US Patent Issued to TAIYO YUDEN on Sept. 23 for "Multilayer ceramic electronic component and circuit board" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,387, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TAIYO YUDEN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Multilayer ceramic electronic component and circuit board" was invented by Tomoki Sakai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body having internal electrodes stacked in a direction of a first axis, and end surfaces perpendicular to a second axis orthogonal to the first axis, and external electrodes covering the end surfaces of the ceramic body, respectively, wherein each of the external electrodes includes a base film formed on a corresponding one of the end surfaces and connected to the plurality of i...