ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,443, issued on April 14, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Optimal phase condition determination method, antenna module, and communication system" was invented by Kouichi Koshino (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A short-axis intensity is obtained under a plurality of phase conditions including different phase conditions of a high-frequency signal supplied to a plurality of antenna devices included in an array antenna. The short-axis intensity is a maximum value of a short-axis direction component of an electric field vector of a composite wave of radio waves radiated in a first dire...