ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,292, issued on March 24, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Vehicle unit and positional relationship identification system" was invented by Youhei Sekiya (Nisshin-city, Japan), Kenichiro Sanji (Kariya-city, Japan) and Yuuji Kakuya (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle unit installable and usable in a vehicle, includes, at least one vehicle antenna transmitting and receiving a high-frequency signal, which is a signal carried on a high-frequency radio wave, and the vehicle antenna includes, a vertically polarized wave antenna capable of transmitting and receiving a polarized wave orthogonal to a ...