US Patent Issued to Apple on June 30 for "Electronic device with charging-coil independent rear-facing antenna" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,171, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic device with charging-coil independent rear-facing antenna" was invented by Dimitrios Papantonis (Cupertino, Calif.), Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yuko N Kanagy (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jiaxiao Niu (Shanghai), Mario Martinis (Cupertino, Calif.), Andrea Ruaro (San Jose, Calif.), Jayesh Nath (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Mattia Pascolini (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may have conductive sidewalls and a rear wall. The rear wall may have a first portion mounted to the sidewalls and a second portion pr...