ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,430, issued on April 21, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Non-reciprocal circuit" was invented by Takeshi Oshima (Tokyo), Yuta Sugiyama (Tokyo) and Akihiro Ando (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a non-reciprocal circuit characterized in that the non-reciprocal circuit includes: a non-reciprocal circuit element having a magnetic substrate, a ground conductor, a central conductor, input and output terminals, a ground conductor, through holes, a permanent magnet, and a permanent magnet; and a dielectric substrate having input and output terminals, a ground conductor, a ground conductor removal portio...