ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,251, issued on June 24, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Antenna apparatus" was invented by Mikko Komulainen (Oulu, Finland), Juha Samuel Hallivuori (Tampere, Finland), Willem Verbiest (Sint-Gillis-Waas, Belgium), Ronny Peeters (Hoboken, Belgium), Natalia Dementieva (Antwerp, Belgium), Nikolaus Singer (Gablitz, Austria) and Nikolas Olaziregi (Antwerp, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements. The antenna array includes one or more grouping of the plurality of antenna elements, configured to provide: a first configuration in which the o...