ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,659, issued on April 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Switchable antenna system" was invented by Smit Kapila (Karnataka, India), Jayprakash Thakur (Karnataka, India) and Santosh Gangal (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless computing device may include an internal antenna, a radio frequency (RF) transmission path that is switchably connectable to the internal antenna, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector configured to connect to an external antenna, a detector configured to detect if an external antenna is connected to the USB connector, and an antenna selector configured to (1) connect th...