ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,581, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to AUO Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Liquid crystal antenna and method of beamforming of electromagnetic waves" was invented by Yi-Chen Hsieh (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Yi-Hsiang Lai (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Ching-Huan Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal antenna and a method of beamforming of electromagnetic waves are provided. The method includes: receiving by a feeding circuit board a feeding signal to form a feeding electromagnetic wave; applying a plurality of bias voltages respectively between a ground plane and a plurality of patch antenna units of a liquid crystal modula...