ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,878, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to PLUME DESIGN INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Highly isolated and barely separated antennas integrated with noise free RF-transparent printed circuit board (PCB) for enhanced radiated sensitivity" was invented by Miroslav Samardzija (Mountain View, Calif.), Yun-Ping Huang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Brian Nam (San Jose, Calif.) and Liem Hieu Dinh Vo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Two antennas based on quarter wave elements angled relative to each other and connected to two ground planes that are also angled relative to one another, having a shorting connection to cancel the extra capacit...