US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on July 1 for "Directional coupler" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,917, issued on July 1, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Directional coupler" was invented by Ikuo Tamaru (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A directional coupler splits an input signal received by an input terminal into four signals to be output to output terminals. The directional coupler includes couplers and phase shifters. The coupler is connected to the input terminal and splits the input signal into two signals to be output to terminals. The coupler splits a signal from the terminal into two signals to be output to the output terminals. The coupler splits a signal from the terminal into tw...