ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,932, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Wireless circuitry access switch" was invented by Alireza Pourghorban Saghati (San Jose, Calif.), Ali N Ergun (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Mohammed W Mokhtar (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include one or more radios and one or more antennas. The electronic device may include an input-output interface for connecting to a radio or an antenna. To facilitate selective external connections to the radio and the antenna, the electronic device may include a switch having a first terminal coupled to the radio, a second terminal coupl...