US Patent Issued to YOKOWO on May 26 for "Antenna device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,498, issued on May 26, was assigned to YOKOWO Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Antenna device" was invented by Bunpei Hara (Tomioka, Japan) and Seiya Hiroki (Tomioka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna device (100) for a vehicle includes an antenna case (101), an antenna base (102) forming an accommodation space together with the antenna case (101), a first antenna element (108) that is accommodated in the accommodation space and that at least transmits or receives a circularly polarized wave; a second antenna element (110) that is arranged close to the first antenna element (108) and that at least transmits or receives a linearly pola...