US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 2 for "Metal structure for steering and broadening mmWave antenna coverage" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,100, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Metal structure for steering and broadening mmWave antenna coverage" was invented by Pei Li (Milpitas, Calif.), Ming Zheng (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Vijay L. Asrani (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement a metal structure for steering and broadening millimeter-wave (mmWave) antenna coverage. A user device includes at least one mmWave antenna that produces a near-field radiation region and a far-field radiation pattern. Disposed within the near-field radiation region is the metal structure comp...