ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,404, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Electronic device that improves wireless network transmission quality and operating method therefor" was invented by Jui-Ting Chuang (Taipei, Taiwan), Tz-Shiang Hung (Taipei, Taiwan), Kai-Min Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Yu-Chen Lee (Taipei, Taiwan), Ming-Hung Chung (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yao-Hsun Huang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an electronic device provided in the disclosure, an external antenna device includes at least one directional antenna, a wireless communication module is electrically connected to the external antenna device, ...