ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,846, issued on June 9, was assigned to INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Shanghai) and INVENTEC Corp. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Antenna device" was invented by Chun-Wei Yu (Taipei City, Taiwan), Shun-Cheng Xie (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yu Shu Tai (Taipei City, Taiwan), Hsin-Hung Lin (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Wei-Chen Cheng (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna device includes a substrate and an antenna component. The antenna component is disposed on the substrate, and includes two hook-shaped excitation bodies, a guider, a reflector and an impedance matching body. The hook-shaped excitation bodies are spaced apar...