ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,986, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Antenna and device configurations" was invented by Seong Heon Jeong (Tuscaloosa, Ala.), Rajneesh Kumar (San Diego), Mohammad Ali Tassoudji (San Diego), Darryl Jessie (San Diego), Gurkanwal Sahota (San Diego), Kevin Hsi Huai Wang (San Diego), Jeong Il Kim (San Diego), Taesik Yang (San Diego), Thomas Myers (San Diego), Neil Burns (San Diego), Julio Zegarra (La Jolla, Calif.), Clinton James Wilber (San Diego) and Jordan Szabo (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna module is described. The antenna module include a ground plane in a multilayer substrat...