ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,410, issued on May 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Access point device" was invented by Yau-Shing Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rolando Willcox Esparza (San Francisco), George Liu (Taipei, Taiwan), Wing Tung Wong (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Frederic Heckmann (Taipei, Taiwan) and Vivian W. Tang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes an access point device and associated systems and methods. The techniques and systems include an access point device that includes a housing with an antenna carrier, a circuit board assembly, a heat sink, and a heat shield positioned within the housing. T...