ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,988, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, N.Y.).

"Performance of capacitors" was invented by James N Turner (Vestal, N.Y.), Tara Prasad Dhakal (Vestal, N.Y.), Ganesh Sainadh Gudavalli (Johnson City, N.Y.) and Pravakar Prasad Rajbhandari (Binghamton, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitor may be configured with a dielectric laminate disposed on ordered or non-ordered structures. Materials for the dielectric laminate have high dielectric constant and reduce leakage current to increase breakdown voltage of the device. These materials may include titanium diox...