ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,959, issued on June 10, was assigned to NXP USA INC. (Austin, Texas).
"Compact connectors with integrated wireless communication elements" was invented by Jinbang Tang (Chandler, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector port disposed within a mobile device such as a smart phone is provided with a wireless antenna coupled to the electrical connector port which. A housing of the connector port, together with the antenna, defines a directional antenna gain pattern enabling the wireless antenna to be used for directional communication between the mobile device and another device."
The patent was filed on Jan. 12, 202...