ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,903, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Compact printed circuit board implemented antenna" was invented by Bo Fang (Tianjin, China), Xueqin Shen (Tianjin, China) and Yi Bin Wu (Tianjin, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printed circuit board-implemented antenna may be used in a smart socket. The printed circuit board implemented-antenna includes a plurality of antenna legs arranged within a rectangular area on a printed circuit board of less than 80 square millimeters with each of the plurality of antenna legs formed using one or more metal layers of the printed circuit board, the...