ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,876, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Transmission line and electronic device" was invented by Nobuo Ikemoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Noriaki Okuda (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Kosuke Nishio (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission line includes an element body, a signal conductor layer, and a ground conductor layer. The element body includes an insulator layer. The signal conductor layer is below the insulator layer, and the ground conductor layer is above the insulator layer in an element body up-down direction. A hole is located at a surface of the insulator layer and...