ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,482, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus for antenna switching in wireless communication system and operating method thereof" was invented by Hongsik Yoon (Suwon si, South Korea) and Jungmin Park (Suwon si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a user equipment including a plurality of antennas including at least first and second groups of antennas, each group respectively allocated to one of a plurality of component carriers according to layer allocation information of the plurality of component carriers, a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) conf...