ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,473, issued on March 25, was assigned to ALTUM RF IP B.V. (De Zaale, Netherlands).

"Active antenna module using printed circuit board technology" was invented by Niels Kramer ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), Sebastiaan Laurens Coenen (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Ernesto Puangco Cenidoza (Lipa, Philippines).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising a first printed circuit board and a second printed circuit board. The first printed circuit board may comprise a plurality of amplifier circuits, a plurality of inputs and a first interconnection network. The second printed circuit board may comprise a plurality of antenna modu...