ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,524, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Data communication connector" was invented by Marc Harper (Snohomish, Wash.), Apoorva Sharma (Sammamish, Wash.) and Daniel Dhondt (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first data connector for communicating data with a second data connector includes a data communication interface including adjacent radiofrequency antenna elements, wherein a plurality of the adjacent radiofrequency antenna elements forms a radiofrequency data antenna array and another radiofrequency antenna element of the adjacent radiofrequency antenna elements fo...