ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,831, issued on June 9, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Flexible printed circuit board with near-field communication (NFC) coil integration" was invented by Weihong Melissa Zhang (Long Grove, Ill.), Chilin Hsu (San Jose, Calif.), Dong Chen (Kirkland, Wash.), Kyung Won Park (Bellevue, Wash.), Xiangyu Kong (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kevin Lo (Belmont, Calif.) and Brooks Bernard Hallin (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible printed circuit board includes a coil for near-field communication (NFC) and circuit components for performing other functions such as driving a display panel. By integratin...