ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,363, issued on March 25, was assigned to WISTRON NEWEB CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Communication device" was invented by Jia-Hung Su (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kai Shih (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Cheng-Geng Jan (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device includes a dielectric substrate, an antenna layer, a metamaterial layer, a first absorber element, a second absorber element, and a third absorber element. The dielectric substrate has a first surface and a second surface which are opposite to each other. The antenna layer is disposed on the first surface of the dielectric substrate. The metamaterial layer is adjacent to...