US Patent Issued to Alps Alpine on Dec. 9 for "Antenna device, detection device, opening/closing unit control system, and occupant detection system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,111, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd (Tokyo).

"Antenna device, detection device, opening/closing unit control system, and occupant detection system" was invented by Hiroyuki Takaoka (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Tomoki Ikeda (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Benjamin Uttalveroff (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Yuki Kato (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Takamitsu Shibayama (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Yukio Otaki (Miyagi-ken, Japan) and Takashi Sano (Miyagi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna device includes: a circuit board; an antenna placed on the circuit board; and a reflector that is erected on the circuit board and extends along its surface. T...