ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,399, issued on March 18, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Antenna module, communication apparatus including the same, and circuit substrate" was invented by Hirotsugu Mori (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Tadashi Sugahara (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Kengo Onaka (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna module includes feeding elements arranged adjacent to each other and filters connected to the respective feeding elements. Each of the filters includes a plurality of resonant lines that is not connected to each other. The filters are arranged between the feeding elements so as to cross a virtual ...