ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,412, issued on April 14, was assigned to ACER Inc. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Mobile device supporting wideband operation" was invented by Kun-Sheng Chang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Ching-Chi Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chuan-Chun Wang (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device supporting wideband operations includes a first metal mechanism element, a dielectric substrate, a first feeding radiation element, a second feeding radiation element, a ground element, and a second metal mechanism element. The first metal mechanism element includes a main portion and a sidewall portion. The sidewall portio...