ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,879, issued on June 3, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Antenna device" was invented by Nai-Chen Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chung-Hsin Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yen-Ju Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna device with a tunable gain, includes a ground plane and a plurality of resonating units. A first resonating unit of the resonating units includes the following elements. A radiating plate, is arranged above the ground plane, and substantially parallel with the ground plane. A ground wall, is arranged between the radiating plate and the ground plane, and substantially perpendicular to the grou...