ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,359, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Slip ring for an electronic device" was invented by Xiaofang Mu (San Jose, Calif.), Jorge L Rivera Espinoza (San Jose, Calif.), Bernd W Adler (San Jose, Calif.), Evan N Dvorak (San Francisco), Samuel E Vinci (San Francisco) and Shaohua Lin (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a first set of antennas, a second set of antennas, and a slip ring disposed between the first set of antennas and the second set of antennas. The slip ring may include a waveguide that provides a pathway for signals transmitted between the fir...