ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,622, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ACER Inc. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Mobile device supporting wideband operation" was invented by Kun-Sheng Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Ching-Chi Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device supporting wideband operations includes a metal mechanism element, a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a third radiation element, and a dielectric substrate. A slot is formed in the metal mechanism element. The first radiation element has a feeding point. The second radiation element is coupled to a ground voltage. The third radiation element is coupled to the g...