ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,503, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Beijing BOE Technology Development Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Array antenna and man-machine interaction apparatus" was invented by Zongmin Liu (Beijing), Feng Qu (Beijing) and Biqi Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An array antenna includes M number of first array elements, N number of second array elements, at least one first link and at least one second link, where Mless than=2, and/or Nless than=2, and both of M and N are positive integers; where in a case where Mless than=2, at least two of the M number of first array elements are connected to corresponding first switch units, respective...