US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on June 9 for "Lens antenna" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,843, issued on June 9, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Lens antenna" was invented by Yuichi Kashino (Ishikawa, Japan) and Tomohiro Murata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens antenna according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a dielectric substrate; a lens which is formed from a surface that is perpendicular to a flat surface of the dielectric substrate and in a direction along the flat surface, and which is configured to be integrated with a dielectric forming the dielectric substrate; and a first antenna which is located near the perpendicul...