ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,106, issued on July 21, was assigned to Fujikura Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Digital phase shifter" was invented by Yusuke Uemichi (Sakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital phase shifter includes a plurality of digital phase shift circuit groups in which a plurality of digital phase shift circuits are connected in cascade, one or more relay digital phase shift circuits (digital phase shift circuits) provided between two digital phase shift circuit groups, and two or more bend-type connection units configured to connect one of the two digital phase shift circuit group and the relay digital phase shift circuit and connect the other of...