US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on July 21 for "Antenna device and communication device equipped therewith" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,136, issued on July 21, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Antenna device and communication device equipped therewith" was invented by Yosuke Sato (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Kengo Onaka (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna device includes a base body, a flat plate-like radiating element placed in the base body, a flat plate-like ground electrode arranged substantially parallel to the radiating element, and high-dielectric layers placed on side surfaces of the base body, the dielectric constants of the high-dielectric layers being higher than that of the base body. At least part of...