ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,679, issued on May 19, was assigned to Parsec Technologies Inc. (Plano, Texas).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna assembly can include a cover, a base, an internal ground plane, a PCB, and a multi-band antenna. The base can be coupled to the cover to define an internal volume, with the internal ground plane positioned there between. The PCB can include a base PCB portion and a first PCB portion. The multi-band antenna can comprise a radiating element ...