US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 30 for "Vehicle mounted antenna and antenna-mounted vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,172, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Vehicle mounted antenna and antenna-mounted vehicle" was invented by Dinh thanh Le (Toyota, Japan), Hiroshi Yoshimoto (Toyota, Japan), Masahiko Uchida (Toyota, Japan), Sumie Kurita (Aichi-gun, Japan) and Yuya Osamura (Toyoake, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle-mounted antenna includes a power supply pin disposed upright on the body, a first radiation element extending from the power supply pin in a horizontal plane rearward of the vehicle, and a second radiation element extending from the power supply pin in a horizontal plane forward of t...