US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for coupling sections of an electronic device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,397, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for coupling sections of an electronic device" was invented by Nicholas Merz (San Francisco) and Daniel Jarvis (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This is directed to systems and methods for coupling sections of an electronic device together. Sections of an electronic device can be coupled together via "knuckles." The particular shape and structure of the knuckles can be based on various design considerations. For example, in some embodiments each section can function as an individual antenna. In this case, the knuckles can be des...