ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,827, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Transparent MIMO antenna for closely spaced antenna elements" was invented by Rifaqat Hussain (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdul Aziz (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Naveed Iqbal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Azzedine Zerguine (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna is disclosed. The antenna includes a transparent substrate, a first square patch antenna element with a square lattice structure, a second square patch antenna element and a low profile transparent pass...