ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,738, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Antenna units, radiation and beam shape of antenna units, and methods thereof" was invented by Seong-Youp John Suh (Portland, Ore.), Timo Sakari Huusari (Hillsboro, Ore.), Shuhei Yamada (Hillsboro, Ore.), Oner Orhan (San Jose, Calif.) and Jose Rodrigo Camacho Perez (Guadalajara, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Monodirectional antennas may be arranged to radiate in a near omni-directional pattern. By incorporating switches into the antenna arrangement, the antennas can be controlled to selectively radiate from a common radiofrequency feed. These arrang...