ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,351, issued on March 24, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Transmission and reception module" was invented by Katsuya Ikegami (Kyoto, Japan) and Kazuhiro Ikarashi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission and reception module includes a substrate including a transmission signal input terminal, a reception signal output terminal, and an antenna terminal, a duplexer that is provided on the substrate, outputs a transmission signal input from the transmission signal input terminal to the antenna terminal, and outputs a reception signal input from the antenna terminal to the reception signal...