ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,279, issued on July 22, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Non-planar antennas for portable storage devices" was invented by Aadesh Gupta (Bengaluru, India) and Sudhan Immanuel G (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable storage device is provided that includes a first heat sink and a second heat sink, and a printed circuit board disposed between the first heat sink and the second heat sink. The printed circuit board includes a top side, a bottom side, and a peripheral edge disposed between the top side and the bottom side, and a side-plated antenna disposed on the peripheral edge...