US Patent Issued to John Mezzalingua Associates on Nov. 11 for "Integrated and phase-compensated base station antenna phase shifter and calibration board" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,984, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to John Mezzalingua Associates LLC (Liverpool, N.Y.).

"Integrated and phase-compensated base station antenna phase shifter and calibration board" was invented by Taehee Jang (Allen, Texas) and Niranjan Sundararajan (Clay, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an antenna having a plurality of radiator columns and an integrated phase shifter/calibration board. The radiator columns have radiator clusters that may be differentially phase to provide beam tilt. The input traces of each of the phase shifters is capacitively coupled to a Wilkinson power divider that sums the power of all the in...