ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,977, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to YOKOWO Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Vehicular antenna device" was invented by Kazuhiro Kowaita (Tomioka, Japan) and Hiroto Ieda (Tomioka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna element (200) includes a first element (210) having a first feed portion, and a first element section (210a) and a second element section (210b) at opposite sides of the first feed portion, and a second element (220) having a second feed portion and, a third element section (220a) and a fourth element section (220b) at opposite sides of the second feed portion, at least a part of the first element (210) and at least a pa...