ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,216, issued on March 24, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Antenna module, connection member, and communication device including the same" was invented by Kengo Onaka (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hirotsugu Mori (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yoshiki Yamada (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Kaoru Sudo (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hiroshi Izumitani (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Hideki Ueda (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The antenna module includes a first substrate and a second substrate on each of which a radiating element is arranged, a third substrate, and a switch circuit. An RFIC for supplying a radio frequency signal to ...