ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,445, issued on April 14, was assigned to Parsec Technologies Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Antenna systems" was invented by Michael A. Neenan (Plano, Texas), Richard Loy Smith Jr. (Dallas), Rauhon Ahmed Shaik (Wylie, Texas) and George Alexander Bednekoff (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna assembly can include an internal ground plane, a base PCB, and a plurality of antennas. The base PCB can be positioned above the internal ground plane. The base PCB can include a plurality of individual ground planes spaced circumferentially about a center of the base PCB, with the plurality of individual ground planes being electrical...