US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on June 2 for "Composite antenna" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,859, issued on June 2, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Composite antenna" was invented by Hiromichi Yoshikawa (Yokohama, Japan) and Nobuki Hiramatsu (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite antenna includes a plurality of unit structures arranged in a first plane direction, a reference conductor serving as a reference potential of the plurality of unit structures, and an antenna element provided around the arranged plurality of unit structures and electromagnetically connected to the reference conductor. The plurality of unit structures each includes a first resonator extending in the first plane dire...