ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,901, issued on Sept. 16.

"Electronic device with near-field antenna operating through display" was invented by Miroslav Samardzija (Mountain View, Calif.), Yiren Wang (Cupertino, Calif.), Yuehui Ouyang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Joseph Hakim (Jacksonville, Ore.), Qingxiang Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Robert W. Schlub (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ruben Caballero (San Jose, Calif.), Siwen Yong (San Francisco) and Erik G. de Jong (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may have a display. A display cover layer and a transparent inner display member may overlap a display pixel layer. The display pixel layer may have an array of...