ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,799, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Method and electronic device for time-averaged specific absorption rate (TA-SAR) optimization" was invented by Cheng-Han Lee (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Yu-Han Cheng (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chih-Wei Lee (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for TA-SAR optimization with an antenna tuner is provided. The antenna tuner has multiple tuner states. An instant SAR level that is higher than a threshold SAR level is calculated. A suitable tuner among the multiple tuner states is determined based on the instant SAR level. The tuner is switched...