ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,383, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Antenna switching method and apparatus" was invented by Jinning Huang (Dongguan, China), Yanliang Sun (Dongguan, China), Ningning Xie (Dongguan, China) and Yi He (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna switching method and apparatus are provided. The antenna switching method is performed by a terminal and includes: when a network environment of the terminal or a state of the terminal satisfies a first condition, performing an antenna switching state dominated by an uplink, performing uplink transmission sequentially on at...