ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,751, issued on April 22, was assigned to John Mezzalingua Associates LLC (Liverpool, N.Y.).
"8T8R quasi-omnidirectional antenna" was invented by Niranjan Sundararajan (Clay, N.Y.) and Evan Wayton (Tully, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a quasi-omnidirectional antenna having three array faces, wherein each of the three array faces has a radiator array having a plurality of radiator columns. Each of the corresponding radiator columns on the radiator arrays are coupled together to a single pair of antenna ports, one per polarization. This results in a service beam having three gain lobes that can be swept in unison in a ...