US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 22 for "Placement of mobile wireless device on a display panel with a hidden antenna" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,470, issued on July 22, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Placement of mobile wireless device on a display panel with a hidden antenna" was invented by John R. Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.), Jayanthi Rao (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Mark W. Larry (Macomb, Mich.) and Eugene Karpinsky (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A near-field communication (NFC) reader is integrated with a display panel in a passenger cabin of a vehicle by constructing a hidden antenna of the reader into a portion of the display panel. The display comprises a touchscreen display providing a display surface coinciden...