Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to future smartglasses with built-in cellular phone antennas.

Smartglasses with Wireless Communications

Apple's patent covers smartglasses with a peripheral conductive member that may run along a peripheral edge of the front face of the housing. Dielectric-filled gaps may divide the peripheral conductive member into elongated conductive segments. The conductive segments may form antenna resonating elements for antennas on the front face. Radio-frequency transceiver circuitry such as cellular telephone transceiver circuitry may be coupled to the antennas.

Apple's patent FIG. 6 below is a front view of smartglasses with cellular phone antennas.

Apple further notes that the head-mounted device / smartglasses defined further comprises radio-frequency transceiver circuitry coupled to the plurality of antennas, wherein the radio-frequency transceiver circuitry is configured to transmit and receive signals at a frequency between 600 MHz and 6 GHz.

For full details, view granted patent 12055718. Patently Apple covered another such patent back in June supporting smartglasses with cellular antennas. Smartglasses with cellular connectivity is becoming an emerging trend for Apple.

Apple was granted another HMD/Smartglasses related patent covering Displaying Virtual Objects that you could review under granted patent 12058301.