ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,255, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Adaptive antenna tuning system" was invented by Liang Han (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Enrique Ayala Vazquez (Watsonville, Calif.), Thomas E. Biedka (San Jose, Calif.), Hongfei Hu (Cupertino, Calif.), Erdinc Irci (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nanbo Jin (San Jose, Calif.), James G. Judkins (Campbell, Calif.), Victor C. Lee (Santa Clara, Calif.), Matthew A. Mow (Los Altos, Calif.), Mattia Pascolini (San Francisco), Ming-Ju Tsai (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yiren Wang (Cupertino, Calif.), Yuancheng Xu (San Jose, Calif.) and Yijun Zhou (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A r...