ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,196, issued on July 28, was assigned to Wistron NeWeb Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Antenna apparatus, antenna device, and impedance tuning mechanism" was invented by Sin Sze Ip (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Shan Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ting-Huei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chao-Tsu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna apparatus includes a carrier, an impedance tuning mechanism corresponding in position to the carrier, and an antenna mechanism that is disposed on the impedance tuning mechanism. The impedance tuning mechanism includes a grounding layer disposed on the carrier and an impedance tuning layer spaced apart ...