ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,819, issued on June 2, was assigned to AMOTECH Co. LTD. (Incheon, South Korea).

"Feed pin, and patch antenna comprising same" was invented by Taehyung Kim (Incheon, South Korea), Chul Huang (Incheon, South Korea), Yechan Choi (Incheon, South Korea), Sanghyun Lee (Incheon, South Korea), Habin Bong (Incheon, South Korea), Sango Kim (Incheon, South Korea), Seungho Yang (Incheon, South Korea) and Gunyoung Lee (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are: a feed pin in which a step is formed on a head to prevent cracks from forming in a soldering layer; and a patch antenna comprising the feed pin. The provided feed pin...