ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,857, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Antenna device and antenna unit" was invented by Ryo Komura (Kyoto, Japan) and Masahiro Izawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna device includes: a ground electrode plate; one or more first radiating electrode plates which face the ground electrode plate; a second radiating electrode plate which lies between the ground electrode plate and the one or more first radiating electrode plates; one or more first feeder lines which are connected to the one or more first radiating electrode plates; a second feeder line which is not conn...