US Patent Issued to TAIYO YUDEN on Sept. 30 for "Multilayer ceramic electronic component with uneven region between external electrodes" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,292, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TAIYO YUDEN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Multilayer ceramic electronic component with uneven region between external electrodes" was invented by Yuji Tomizawa (Tokyo), Yasutomo Suga (Tokyo) and Yasunari Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body, and first and second external electrodes facing each other in a second axis direction. The ceramic body includes internal electrodes, and has a rectangular parallelepiped shape having first and second end surfaces, and four connection surfaces each connecting the first and second end surfaces. T...