US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on July 22 for "Directional coupler" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,224, issued on July 22, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Directional coupler" was invented by Kenta Seki (Kyoto, Japan), Yasushi Shigeno (Kyoto, Japan), Daisuke Tokuda (Kyoto, Japan), Ryangsu Kim (Kyoto, Japan), Katsuya Shimizu (Kyoto, Japan) and Kazuhito Osawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A directional coupler includes a main line, a first sub-line to be electromagnetically coupled to the main line, a second sub-line to be electromagnetically coupled to the main line, and a coupling terminal configured to output a detection signal corresponding to a radio frequency signal that is transmi...