ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,942, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TODA KOGYO CORP. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Ferrite sheet strip, and antenna device and cable using ferrite sheet strip" was invented by Satoshi Ohmae (Otake, Japan), Tetsuya Kimura (Otake, Japan), Makoto Sadai (Otake, Japan) and Yoji Okano (Otake, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ferrite sheet strip includes a strip shaped substrate and a plurality of ferrite sheet pieces provided on a surface of the substrate. The plurality of ferrite sheet pieces are aligned and spaced apart by a gap from one another along a longitudinal direction of the substrate. The gap extends at least partially so as no...