ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,979, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Antenna device and communication terminal apparatus" was invented by Takafumi Nasu (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna device includes first and second radiating elements, a first coil coupled to the first radiating element or a feeding circuit, a second coil coupled to the second radiating element and coupled to the first coil via an electromagnetic field, and an inductor. The first and second radiating elements are coupled to each other via an electric field. The harmonic resonant frequency of a resonance circuit defined...