ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,380, issued on March 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor element" was invented by Yasushi Koyama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Noriyuki Kaifu (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor element comprising: an antenna array that is provided with a plurality of antennas each including a semiconductor layer having an electromagnetic wave gain or carrier nonlinearity with respect to a terahertz wave; and a coupling line that synchronizes adjacent antennas in the antenna array with each other at a frequency of the terahertz wave, wherein the coupling line includes a plurality of first regions connected to the adjacen...