US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 16 for "Flexible connector with permeability shield to reduce antenna loss" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,106, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Flexible connector with permeability shield to reduce antenna loss" was invented by Yao Ding (San Jose, Calif.) and Qi Qi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes apparatuses and techniques for providing a flexible connector between a secondary circuit board and a main logic board with a permeability shield to increase impedance of the flexible connector to reduce antenna loss from an antenna via the flexible connector to the main logic board. For example, an apparatus includes a secondary circuit board supporting one or mor...