US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Oct. 20 for "On glass shorted monopole antenna design" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,037, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"On glass shorted monopole antenna design" was invented by Uriel Zvi Odes (Givaat Shmuel, Israel), Nahel Eshaq (Rochester, Mich.) and Duane S. Carper (Davison, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a window having an antenna assembly. The window includes a glass surface, a metal frame around the glass surface, and a set of defroster wires in the glass surface. A top wire of the set of defroster wires is separated from a top edge of the metal frame by an antenna region. The antenna is disposed in the antenna region. The antenna has...