ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,952, issued on April 7, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Antenna tuning for wireless links" was invented by Vivek Tulshiram Bharambe (San Jose, Calif.) and Jiang Zhu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is directed to a dynamic antenna tuning system for improving wireless links between a host device implementing the system, and one or more other devices. For example, the host device can be a smartwatch or other wearable device, and the other devices can be a pair of wireless earbuds or a smartphone. The antenna tuning system can use both an impedance tuner and an aperture tuner to dynam...