ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,401, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Dielectric covers for antennas" was invented by Jiangfeng Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Siwen Yong (Mountain View, Calif.), Yi Jiang (Cupertino, Calif.), Lijun Zhang (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Mattia Pascolini (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may be provided with wireless communications circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include centimeter and millimeter wave transceiver circuitry and a phased antenna array. A dielectric cover may be formed over the phased antenna array. The phased antenna array may t...