ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,843, issued on March 3, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Matching circuit" was invented by Yuri Honda (Kyoto, Japan), Jun Enomoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Mitsunori Samata (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A matching circuit includes: a first wire having one end connected to a first terminal and another end; a second wire having one end connected to the other end of the first wire and another end connected to a first reference potential and electromagnetically coupled to the first wire; and a third wire having one end connected to the one end of the second wire and another end connected to a second ...