ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,701, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Dielectric composition and electronic component" was invented by Tetsuhiro Takahashi (Tokyo), Toshihiro Iguchi (Tokyo) and Tomoko Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a dielectric composition containing: a main component expressed by {BaxSr(1-x)}mTa4O12; and a first subcomponent, m satisfying a relationship of 1.95less than equal tomless than equal to2.40. The first subcomponent includes silicon and magnesium. When the amount of the main component contained in the dielectric composition is set to 100 parts by mole, the amount of silicon contained in the ...