ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,285, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Antenna device and electronic equipment" was invented by Hironori Kikuchi (Miyagi, Japan), Kenji Nishikawa (Hyogo, Japan) and Kazuya Tani (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna device including: an antenna module for performing communication at a predetermined communication frequency; a base having conductivity, the base including a first surface and a first recess, the first recess accommodating the antenna module and being disposed on the first surface; a radome that is a dielectric, the radome including a s...