ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,639, issued on July 7, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electronic device and antenna control method" was invented by Jian-Jun Zhou (Suzhou, China) and Jie-Hong Yu (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device and an antenna control method are provided. The electronic device includes an antenna, a line switching circuit, a first communication chip, a second communication chip, and a logic circuit. The line switching circuit is coupled to the antenna. The first communication chip is coupled to the antenna through the line switching circuit and configured to generate a slot allocation ...