ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,957, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for implementing host-centric antenna control" was invented by Jayprakash Thakur (Bangalore, India), Samir V. Gundawar (Bangalore, India), Madhukiran Sreenivasareddy (Bangalore, India), Poondi Balaji Venkatachalapath Gopi Sudarson (Bangalore, India), Mythili Hegde (Bangalore, India) and Ashish Upadhyaya (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for implementing host-centric antenna control. An apparatus may include a plurality of antennas for wireless transmission and reception, a wireless modem for processin...