ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,214, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Reprogrammable array of selectable antenna elements for frequency adjustment" was invented by Yu Zhu (Wellesley, Mass.), Guillaume Alexandre Blin (Carlisle, Mass.) and Stephen Joseph Kovacic (Newport Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reprogrammable antenna arrays for frequency adjustment are provided. In certain embodiments, a mobile device includes a front-end system including a plurality of radio frequency signal conditioning circuits, an antenna array including a plurality of selectable antenna elements, and a control circuit configured t...