ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,303, issued on March 17, was assigned to Shanghai Sunmi Technology Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"NFC antenna for handheld device and handheld device" was invented by Laibing Gu (Shanghai), Zhe Lin (Shanghai), Hui Shu (Shanghai), Xusheng Lu (Shanghai) and Baike Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application discloses an NFC antenna for handheld devices and a handheld device. The NFC antenna includes an antenna base and a coupling coil arranged along the edge of the antenna base. The antenna base integrally includes a first antenna base and two second antenna bases. The first antenna base is arranged on a backside of the handheld...