US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Aug. 5 for "Antenna for a mobile terminal that overlaps a side button" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,972, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Antenna for a mobile terminal that overlaps a side button" was invented by Hongjo Shim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyunwoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Sungwook Chang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a mobile terminal which can additionally mount antennas without needing to change the positions of buttons and thus without reducing the usability thereof, the mobile terminal comprising: an antenna module disposed inside the side surface of a case; and a user input module overlappingly disposed inside the antenna module and including...