ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,893, issued on May 13, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Antenna assemblies" was invented by Jiwoong Kong (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jung Ju Suh (Seoul, South Korea) and Charles L. Bruzzone (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic assembly includes a circuit board including a plurality of electrically conductive traces, a cover layer disposed on the circuit board, and a plurality of antenna assemblies disposed on a major top surface of the cover layer and exposing the major top surface therebetween. Each of the antenna assemblies includes an antenna and an adhesive layer bonding th...