ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,752, issued on April 22, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transient voltage protection device" was invented by Naoyoshi Yoshida (Tokyo), Masato Hayatsu (Tokyo), Shunsuke Takahashi (Tokyo) and Sota Hiraba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transient voltage protection device includes an element body formed with a cavity inside, a pair of external electrodes on the element body, and a pair of internal electrodes in the element body. The pair of internal electrodes oppose each other. Each internal electrode is connected to a corresponding external electrode of the pair of external electrodes. The element body includes a first inn...