ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,912, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to HARADA INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Composite antenna device" was invented by Igor Golovlev (Tokyo), Yutaka Imamura (Tokyo) and Hidekazu Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite antenna includes a dipole antenna element and a circularly polarized antenna element. The dipole antenna element includes a first hot terminal, a ground terminal, a first element extending from the first hot terminal, and a second element extending from the ground terminal. The circularly polarized antenna element includes a second hot terminal disposed on a line connecting the first hot terminal and t...