ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,070, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Mimosa Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Orthogonally-polarized antenna system and device for MIMO applications" was invented by John Sanford (Escondido, Calif.), Brian L. Hinman (Los Gatos, Calif.), Justin Lee (Santa Clara, Calif.), Carlos Ramos (San Jose, Calif.) and Syed Aon Mujtaba (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Omni-directional orthogonally-polarized antenna system for MIMO applications are disclosed herein. An example antenna system comprises two arrays of horizontally polarized radiating elements, and two arrays of vertically polarized radiating elements, each ar...