ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,460, issued on July 15, was assigned to Matsing Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Lensed multiple band multiple beam multiple column dual-polarized antenna" was invented by John Stewart Wilson (Huntington Beach, Calif.) and Igor Timofeev (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inventive subject matter provides apparatus, systems and methods in which a high port count base station antenna uses an array of spherical lenses with multiple ports per frequency band, containing multiple frequency bands, and capable of multiple beam operation. In a preferred embodiment, the antenna system comprises a plurality of spherical, dielectric lenses, stack...