ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,426, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Low-profile single-chain beam-steerable MMW lens antenna" was invented by Tae Young Yang (Portland, Ore.), Seong-Youp John Suh (Portland, Ore.), Harry G. Skinner (Beaverton, Ore.), Ashoke Ravi (Portland, Ore.), Ofir Degani (Haifa, Israel) and Ronen Kronfeld (Shoham, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna module and communication device containing the antenna module are disclosed. The antenna module is disposed in a metal cavity. The antenna module includes a switched beam mm-wave antenna array having radiating elements separated by less than a wavelen...