US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Electric Industries, AutoNetworks Technologies, Sumitomo Wiring Systems on March 4 for "Array antenna" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,063, issued on March 4, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan), AutoNetworks Technologies Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan).

"Array antenna" was invented by Yutaro Miki (Osaka, Japan), Suguru Yamagishi (Osaka, Japan), Ichiro Kuwayama (Osaka, Japan), Daisuke Miyawaki (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Kosuke Sone (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This array antenna is an array antenna to be used for beam forming and includes: a plurality of antenna elements; a ground; a dielectric provided between the plurality of antenna elements and the ground, the dielectric hav...