ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,655, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for shared antenna tuning" was invented by Glenn D. MacGougan (San Jose, Calif.), Aditya N. Srivastava (Fremont, Calif.), Harsha Shirahatti (Santa Clara, Calif.), Madhusudan Chaudhary (Campbell, Calif.), Ozgur Ekici (Ottawa), Sachin J. Sane (San Jose, Calif.) and William J. Bencze (Half Moon Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to shared antenna tuning. An electronic device may receive a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) tune request to tune a shared antenna to a GNSS signal frequency. The electronic ...