ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,818, issued on June 9, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Adjustable auxiliary and emergency antenna" was invented by Igal Kotzer (Tel Aviv, Israel), Tal Piterman (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Tony Eyal Naim (Netanya, Israel) and Aviv Zandany (Holon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications system including a telescopic antenna, a deployment motor configured to apply an extension force to the telescopic antenna for extending the telescopic antenna in response to a communications frequency, a transceiver for transmitting a transmit signal at the communications frequency, and a signal meter for det...