ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,485, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Antenna device and related communication method" was invented by Zoran Randjelovic (Corcelles, Switzerland) and Thierry Scordilis (Cormondreche, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiocommunication device, configured to implement a communication method, including an antenna for picking up at least one set of electromagnetic waves and/or for radiating at least one first group of data and/or at least one second group of data. The device further includes at least one first radiocommunication circuit, configured to rece...