ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,057, issued on March 4, was assigned to NEC Platforms Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).
"Antenna device" was invented by Takayuki Imagawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Masato Tsuchiya (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinya Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan), Jou Hashime (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoyuki Kuge (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an antenna device whose characteristics are enhanced (radio waves are efficiently emitted from an extended antenna) without need to place a communication unit that wirelessly communicates with the outside of a vehicle in close proximity to a loop structure of the vehicle, thus allowing a high flexibility of installation of ...