ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,768, issued on March 11, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Antenna device and display antenna" was invented by Ryota Nihei (Tokyo), Junichi Funada (Tokyo), Kenji Wakafuji (Tokyo), Kazuyuki Hayashi (Tokyo), Kohei Yoshida (Tokyo), Shingo Watanabe (Tokyo), Kazushi Sugyo (Tokyo), Masakazu Ono (Tokyo) and Fujio Okumura (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an antenna device including an antenna array including a plurality of patch antennas arrayed in a grid, a first switch group including a first switch disposed on a wiring line connecting two adjacent patch antennas, and a second switch group including a second s...