US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO TEN on March 4 for "Wireless communication apparatus and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,746, issued on March 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO TEN Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Wireless communication apparatus and vehicle" was invented by Takuma Sawaya (Nagoya, Japan), Hironobu Yamamoto (Toyota, Japan), Noriaki Ito (Toyota, Japan), Hiroki Kawasaki (Toyota, Japan), Hiroto Nakagawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Satoru Ikeda (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication apparatus comprises a communication module configured to perform wireless communication with a network outside a vehicle; and a first antenna connected to the communication module, wherein the wireless communication appar...