ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,578, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to YAGEO Corp. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Metal electrode of ceramic capacitor and method of forming the same" was invented by Hsing-I Hsiang (Tainan, Taiwan), Fu-Su Yen (Tainan, Taiwan), Chi-Yuen Huang (Tainan, Taiwan), Chun-Te Lee (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Kai-Hsun Yang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Shih-Ming Wang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal electrode of a ceramic capacitor and a method of forming the same are provided. The method includes mixing metal powders and a barium titanate organic-precursor to obtain precursor powders; ad...