US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on June 24 for "Antenna designs with switch units for wearable devices" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,239, issued on June 24, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Antenna designs with switch units for wearable devices" was invented by Gregory John Haubrich (Champlin, Minn.), Paul Anders Shriner (Hopkins, Minn.) and Casey Murray (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna system for a wearable device comprises an antenna that includes a plurality of elements. The elements include an antenna element that comprises an electrically conductive material. The antenna also includes one or more feed points configured for operable coupling to a wireless transceiver. Additionally, the antenna incl...