ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,014, issued on May 27, was assigned to Mimosa Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Multi-band antenna array devices having a tubular configuration" was invented by Brian L. Hinman (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-band antenna arrays and methods of use are provided herein. An example device includes vertical surfaces arranged into a tubular configuration, where each of the vertical surfaces comprising antenna arrays is aligned along the vertical surfaces. The antenna elements are arrayed through a feed network in such a way that antenna gain is increased while elevation beam-width is reduced. The device also in...