ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,908, issued on March 24, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Transparent uniplanar antenna" was invented by Wei Huang (San Diego), Yasuo Morimoto (Cupertino, Calif.), Jiang Zhu (Cupertino, Calif.) and Boon Shiu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed antenna device may include a substrate and a uniplanar transparent conductive material on the substrate. The uniplanar transparent conductive material may include an active segment, a capacitive active segment to capacitively feed the active segment and separated from the active segment by a dummy segment, and a tuning active se...