ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,181, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Ultra-wideband antenna matching" was invented by Han Wang (Campbell, Calif.), Jingni Zhong (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alden T Rush (San Diego), Ming Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Yiren Wang (Cupertino, Calif.), Yuan Tao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hao Xu (Cupertino, Calif.), Hongfei Hu (Cupertino, Calif.) and Mattia Pascolini (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may be provided with an antenna resonating element on a first substrate that is mounted to a second substrate. A signal conductor may be coupled to a feed terminal on the antenna resonat...