ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,179, issued on July 28, was assigned to HARADA INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle antenna device" was invented by Yoshihisa Suda (Tokyo), Junichi Kawahata (Tokyo) and Yuki Takahashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle antenna device includes a plate-like element and a ground substrate. The plate-like element has a feed part and a leading end part extending a predetermined line width from the feed part to the leading end part to define a blank part at its center as viewed from above. The plate-like element has an open part extending from the blank part between the feed part and the leading end to transmit and receive sign...