ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,559, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Reading device" was invented by Mitsuhide Murofushi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kenichi Nakao (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reading device includes an antenna element, a substrate including a communication circuit and a ground plane, a connecting member protruding from the substrate in a thickness direction of the substrate and configured to electrically connect the communication circuit and the antenna element, and a casing configured to retain the antenna element, the substrate, and the connecting member. The antenna element is arranged separately from the s...