ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,412, issued on July 7, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Antenna module and communication device mounted with the same" was invented by Hideyuki Morimoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Kengo Onaka (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Masato Iemura (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Izumi Mori (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna module includes antenna groups, hybrid couplers, dividers, and an RFIC. The antenna group includes radiating elements. The antenna group includes radiating elements. Each hybrid coupler has input terminals and output terminals. The RFIC supplies a high frequency signal to each radiating el...