ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,065, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Broadband planar array antenna" was invented by Kazumasa Sakurai (Nisshin, Japan) and Kazushi Kawaguchi (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A broadband planar array antenna in one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a multi-layer board; a plurality of patch antenna patterns; and a transmission line that connects the plurality of patch antenna patterns in series. The distance from the transmission line to an end of each of the plurality of patch antenna patterns along the polarization direction of a radiated radio wave is shorter with increasing pro...