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US 9099773
Multiple-body-configuration multimedia and smartphone multifunction wireless devices
Current assignee: Fractus SA
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Patent summary
Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
Patent Overview: US9099773B2
Title: Multiple-body-configuration multimedia and smartphone multifunction wireless devices
Patent number: US9099773B2
Assignee/current assignee: Fractus, S.A. (Original assignee: Fractus SA)
Inventors: Carles Puente Baliarda, Josep Mumbru, Jordi Ilario
Application number: US14/246,491
Filing date: 2014-04-07
Priority date (as listed): 2006-07-18
Publication date (grant): 2015-08-04
Publication of pre-grant application: US20140253395A1 (2014-09-11)
Status: Active; anticipated expiration listed as 2026-12-21
Purpose (plain language): The patent relates to multifunction wireless devices—described as multimedia and smartphone devices—that can take multiple body configurations. Based on the supplied excerpt, its subject matter centers on antenna technology for such devices, as reflected in prominent prior-art keywords (antenna, rectangle, contour, ground plane) and recurring concepts such as radiation, communication, parasitic effects, coupling, isolation, polarization and electromagnetic fields. The title indicates the device may assume more than one physical body configuration, with wireless/antenna functionality maintained across those configurations.
Scope (from supplied text): The excerpt presents bibliographic and classification-style data plus keyword statistics—for example, references to efficiency/radiation characteristics, coupling and isolation between antenna elements, antenna design and optimization, and integration into communication devices. The excerpt does not reproduce the actual claims, so the precise metes and bounds of the claimed invention cannot be stated from the supplied text alone.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US9099773](/patent/US9099773)/en
What the excerpt does not establish:
- The full text of any claim, and therefore the exact scope of legal protection.
- The specification's detailed embodiments, figures, or definitions.
- The content or dates of any prior-art references (beyond keyword tags).
- Legal conclusions regarding validity, enforceability, or claim interpretation.
- Ownership history or litigation facts (the excerpt merely notes a litigation-family indicator and does not substantiate it).
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