ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,480, issued on March 31, was assigned to AGC INC. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle antenna device and antenna module" was invented by Hideaki Shoji (Tokyo) and Satoshi Kaneko (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a vehicle antenna device which can secure desired antenna characteristics of both a satellite antenna and a communication antenna. A vehicle antenna device comprising a dielectric attached to a vehicle, a conductor plate placed adjacent to the dielectric plate, a satellite antenna disposed below the conductor plate, receiving radio waves which arrive from a satellite through the dielectric plate, and a communication antenna dis...