ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,902, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication device" was invented by Takashi Kawamura (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Matsui (Tokyo), Takuma Matsushita (Tokyo), Kazuhiro Hongo (Tokyo), Toshinori Kondo (Tokyo) and Futoshi Takeuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device includes a circularly polarized antenna with a first antenna element and a second antenna element disposed orthogonally to the first antenna element; and a phase shifter that includes a capacitor connected to the first antenna element, and an inductor connected to the second antenna element, in which in a case where a resistan...