ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,179, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic device with rear wall antenna parasitic" was invented by Dingliang Wen (Shenzhen, China), Yuan Tao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Junying Liu (Shanghai), Lu Zhang (Shanghai), Yiren Wang (Cupertino, Calif.), Tao Wang (Cupertino, Calif.), Nikolaj P Kammersgaard (Copenhagen, Denmark), Erda Wen (San Diego), Hao Xu (Cupertino, Calif.), Hongfei Hu (Cupertino, Calif.), Carlo Di Nallo (Belmont, Calif.), Mattia Pascolini (San Francisco), Aditya Gupta (Cupertino, Calif.) and Elisabeth A Lang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may be prov...