ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,379, issued on March 18, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Hybrid antenna system for wearable devices" was invented by Mathias Andreas Hintermann (Playa Vista, Calif.), Pat Kusbel (Longmont, Colo.), Douglas Wayne Moskowitz (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Ugur Olgun (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Russell Douglas Patton (Playa Vista, Calif.), Patrick Timothy McSweeney Simons (Downey, Calif.), John Bernard Ardisana II (Torrance, Calif.), Teodor Dabov (Los Angeles) and Ashutosh Y. Shukla (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna system comprises a combination of a loop antenna and a non-loop antenna. The loop antenna ...