ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,490, issued on May 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Antenna array embedded in thinned region of display panel" was invented by Charbel Khawand (Sammamish, Wash.), Apoorva Sharma (Sammamish, Wash.) and Andrew James Hillenius (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology is generally directed to an antennary array embedded in a thinned region of a display panel. In one example of the technology, an apparatus comprises a display panel and a first antenna. The display panel is composed of a dielectric material. The display panel includes a first portion. An outer surfa...