US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 3 for "Antenna, array antenna, semiconductor chip, and wireless apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,357, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Antenna, array antenna, semiconductor chip, and wireless apparatus" was invented by Toshihide Kuwabara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna according to the present disclosure at least includes: a semiconductor substrate; a first wiring layer; an insulating layer; a second wiring layer; a first ground pattern formed in the first wiring layer to cover a part of a first region of a main surface of the semiconductor substrate; and a second ground pattern formed in the second wiring layer in such a way that a part of an outer peripheral side of the first ground pattern...