ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,696, issued on May 5, was assigned to YOKOWO Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Antenna device for vehicle" was invented by Noritaka Terashita (Tomioka, Japan), Yusuke Yokota (Tomioka, Japan) and Takashi Kaneko (Tomioka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna device that is attached to a vehicle, the antenna device including: a resin base; a metal base arranged on the resin base; a metal plate located above the resin base and attached to the metal base so as to be superimposed on a portion of the metal base; a substrate arranged on the metal base; an antenna connected to the substrate; and a plurality of fasteners which fix the metal base and...