ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,561, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic ceramic substrate, substrate manufacturing method, and circulator" was invented by Motoki Masaki (Tokyo), Takumi Nagamine (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Moribayashi (Tokyo), Tetsuya Ueda (Tokyo) and Hironobu Shibata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic ceramic substrate includes a base material made of magnetic ceramic and a conductor pattern formed to be in contact with a surface of the base material. The surface of the base material is smooth, and the conductor pattern contains a metal conductor and amorphous glass. A circulator includes the magnet...