Patent 8063769 was granted and assigned to Broadcom (company) on November, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A dual band antenna includes a far field antenna structure for facilitating the communication of first data with a remote device via far field signaling in a millimeter wave band. A near field antenna structure facilitates the communication of second data with a remote device via near field signaling in a near field band. The far field antenna structure and the near field antenna structure share at least one common antenna element.