ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,587, issued on Aug. 5.

"Millimiter-wave antenna system for radiomobile communications in vehicles" was invented by Andrea Notari (Viano, Italy), Riccardo Maggiora (San Salvatore Monferrato, Italy), Fabio Casoli (Reggio Emilia, Italy) and Tiziano Nili (Reggio Emilia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna system for radio mobile communications in vehicles having at least one remote antenna module connected with a cable to a central control unit; the remote antenna module having: a plurality of radiant elements, an RF front end and a control interface; the central control unit having: a signal processor, and a control interface...