ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,033, issued on May 6, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"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 a display antenna including a display including a plurality of light emitters arranged in a grid, an antenna array having an antenna assembly in which a plurality of patch antennas through which light in a wavelength band of a visible region is transmitted is disposed in a grid, the a...