ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,014, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic device having display antenna with canted coil spring" was invented by Cole Marin (Mountain View, Calif.), Sameer Pandya (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Eric T Chiang (San Francisco) and Daniela M Deschamps (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device such as a wristwatch may be provided with a housing and an antenna. The housing may include conductive sidewalls, a conductive turret, and a conductive bridge. The turret may be separated from the sidewalls by a slot. The bridge may couple the turret to the sidewalls across the slot. A dis...