ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,493, issued on July 15, was assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Antenna element and antenna device" was invented by Takuma Senoo (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Toyao (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna element comprises an upper conductor, first lower conductors, second lower conductors, first leg portions, second leg portions and feeding portions. The upper conductor has a middle portion, a ring portion and coupling portions. The ring portion continuously surrounds the middle portion, and the coupling portions couple the middle portion and the ring portion to each other. The first leg portions extend fro...