ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,417, issued on July 7, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Monopole antenna" was invented by Oh Yun Kwon (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monopole antenna includes an antenna portion including a monopole structure disposed perpendicular to a ground surface; a signal feeding portion configured to provide a signal to be fed to the antenna portion; a signal transmission portion disposed parallel to the ground surface and connected to the antenna portion and the signal feeding portion to transmit the signal to the antenna portion; and a base disposed between...