ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,497, issued on May 26, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Antenna module" was invented by Yen-Ju Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Wun-Jian Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Shih-Huang Yeh (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Nai-Chen Liu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna module is provided. The antenna module includes a dielectric substrate, a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) and a first number of first antennas. The radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) is disposed on the dielectric substrate, wherein the RFIC comprises a single first antenna port group and second antenna port groups to recei...