ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,289, issued on July 14, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).

"Antenna device" was invented by Jungaun Lee (Nisshin, Japan) and Toshihiko Takahata (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna device includes a polarization conversion unit in which a conversion space is formed to propagate radio wave. A first waveguide extends from the conversion space to one side in a longitudinal direction, and a second waveguide extends from the conversion space to the other side in the longitudinal direction. The first waveguide is extended...