ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,456, issued on April 21, was assigned to Microwave Information Technology Ltd. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Slot antenna structure and slot antenna device including the same" was invented by Yu-Ting Hsiao (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slot antenna structure includes a metal trough and two metal plates. The metal trough includes a metal bottom plate, two metal sidewalls erected on two opposite long sides of the metal bottom plate respectively, two metal closing walls erected on two opposite short sides of the metal bottom plate respectively, and an opening formed and surrounded by the metal sidewalls and the meta...