ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,917, issued on April 29, was assigned to Beijing BOE Sensor Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing) and BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Phase shifter usable with an antenna including first and second substrates having electrode layers formed thereon, where the electrode layers include body and branch structures" was invented by Cuiwei Tang (Beijing), Jie Wu (Beijing), Tienlun Ting (Beijing), Ying Wang (Beijing), Haocheng Jia (Beijing), Liang Li (Beijing), Qiangqiang Li (Beijing) and Chuncheng Che (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a phase shifter including a first substrate, a second substrate and a dielectric l...