ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,927, issued on March 24, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Antenna structure and antenna array structure" was invented by Norihito Tsukahara (Kyoto, Japan), Masato Mori (Hyogo, Japan), Takayuki Sotoyama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Naoki Adachi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna structure includes: an antenna board including a first surface and a second surface located that is opposite to the first surface; patch antenna elements arrayed on the first surface of the antenna board; a feeding electrode formed on the second surface of the antenna board and electrically ...