US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on March 24 for "Antenna device and communication device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,928, issued on March 24, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Antenna device and communication device" was invented by Hideki Ueda (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Takaya Nemoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Kengo Onaka (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An array accommodated in a housing includes multiple antenna elements. The antenna elements face an inside surface of the housing and are arrayed in a first direction at least one-dimensionally. A waveguide is coupled to the antenna elements of the array antenna and extends from the array antenna toward the inside surface of the housing. The waveguide has...