ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,844, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Antenna mounting system" was invented by Yuuji Kakuya (Nisshin, Japan), Kenichirou Sanji (Kariya, Japan), Tomokazu Miyashita (Kariya, Japan) and Masakazu Ikeda (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna mounting system includes an antenna device and a conductive base plate. The antenna device includes a ground plate, an opposing conductive plate, and a short-circuit pin. The short-circuit pin is positioned to cause a radio wave radiated from the antenna device in a direction perpendicular to the ground plate such that radio wave: has a polarization c...