ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,437, issued on April 14, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Antenna" was invented by Takashi Kawamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna for wireless communication via a lossy medium, a structure thereof is optimized to improve transmission characteristics such as a transmission coefficient. The antenna includes at least one pair of electrodes and a sheath portion. The sheath portion includes a wiring electrically connecting each of the at least one pair of electrodes and a corresponding power supply terminal. The sheath portion is also referred to as a sheath. In this antenna, a minimum diameter of the electro...