Murata Manufacturing Assigned Patent

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Nagaokakyo-Shi, Kyoto-Fu, Japan, has been assigned a patent (9,105,322) developed by Ito, Tomonori, Nagaokakyo, Japan, for a “solid state drive.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Provided is a solid state drive suitable for an increase in capacity. The solid state drive includes a flash memory, and a capacitor electrically connected to the flash memory. The capacitor is composed of an electric double layer capacitor including an electrolyte solution containing propylene carbonate.“

The patent application was filed on January 17, 2014 (14/157,988).