ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,923, issued on June 10, was assigned to Communication Components Antenna Inc. (Kanata, Canada).
"Mixed element beam forming antenna" was invented by Lin-Ping Shen (Ontario, Canada), Nasrin Hojjat (Ottawa), Hua Wang (Ontario, Canada), Erik Willis (Ontario, Canada) and Liviu Negru (Quebec, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beamforming cellular antenna includes a plurality of patch elements and a plurality of dipole elements. The plurality of patch elements and dipole elements are arranged on a planar array of said antenna into a plurality of rows and columns of elements. Each column of elements forms a sub-array connected to a pl...