US Patent Issued to TDK on May 6 for "Electronic component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,874, issued on May 6, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic component" was invented by Yuichi Nagai (Tokyo), Natsumi Kato (Tokyo), Akitoshi Yoshii (Tokyo), Ken Morita (Tokyo), Takehisa Tamura (Tokyo) and Atsushi Takeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each of a plurality of internal electrodes is electrically connected to a corresponding external electrode of a plurality of external electrodes. A plurality of auxiliary internal electrodes are disposed in the same layer as the plurality of internal electrodes to be located between each of a pair of side surfaces and the plurality of internal electrodes. Each of the plura...