ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,894, issued on March 24, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).
"Radio frequency device with optimised radiation pattern for gesture sensing in a motor vehicle" was invented by Eric Servel (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (900) for transmitting and/or receiving radio-frequency signals, which is intended to be integrated into a gesture-detecting system in a motor vehicle, and which comprises: a printed circuit board (930); at least one patch antenna (910), called the T-antenna, comprising superposed a first metal excitation surface and a first ground plane, at least one of the first ...