ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,870, issued on June 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Oscillator and detecting system" was invented by Kokichi Fujimoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oscillator includes a substrate, and a plurality of oscillation structures and a power feed structure. The power feed structure includes a power source and a bias supply unit, the oscillation structures each include one antenna and an N piece of a semiconductor element electrically connected to the antenna. The semiconductor elements exhibit negative resistance characteristics when driven by the power feed structure, and out of the N piece thereof, a P piece ...