ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,543, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"High voltage capacitor" was invented by Yuta Kamo (Tokyo) and Hisashi Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high voltage capacitor includes a pair of capacitors; a common conductor, and a pair of individual conductors. Each of the pair of capacitors includes an element body having a columnar shape with a first direction as an axial direction, and including a first side surface and a second side surface facing away each other in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a first electrode disposed on the first side surface and electrically connected to a c...