ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,452, issued on April 21, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
"Antenna device and communication module" was invented by Hideki Ueda (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Kaoru Sudo (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Natsumi Minamitani (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Jun Adachi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Shu Hamada (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dielectric block includes a bottom surface that includes a conductive ground member including an antenna ground surface inclined with respect to the bottom surface. A feed element is disposed at a distance from the antenna ground surface, and constitutes a patch antenna together with th...