ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,696, issued on April 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Package antenna apparatus and wireless communication apparatus" was invented by Lei Lu (Shanghai), Jian Liang (Shanghai), Xiuyin Zhang (Guangzhou, China), Jinxu Xu (Guangzhou, China), Huiyang Li (Guangzhou, China), Lian Yang (Guangzhou, China), Wanli Zhan (Guangzhou, China), Zongzhi Gao (Shanghai) and Weixi Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A package antenna apparatus including a package substrate, wherein an antenna array is disposed on the package substrate, and a transceiver chip coupled to the antenna array, where the transceiver ...