US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on July 7 for "Antenna device, rectifier circuit, power supply device, and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,400, issued on July 7, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Antenna device, rectifier circuit, power supply device, and electronic device" was invented by Yoshitaka Yoshino (Tokyo) and Taihei Satou (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an antenna device including an antenna unit including a rectifier circuit that receives electric field energy of a radio wave and a quasi-electrostatic field in a space and rectifies an AC signal into a direct current, the antenna unit including a first antenna element used in contact with a human body and a second antenna element that is a conductor ...