ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,462, issued on July 15, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Claremont, N.C.).

"Base station antennas having parasitic elements on multiple faces of a reflector" was invented by Lin Wang (Tokyo), Jianpeng Lu (Suzhou, China), Haiyan Chen (Suzhou, China) and Hangsheng Wen (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Base station antennas are provided. A base station antenna includes a reflector that has a plurality of faces that face in different directions. The base station antenna includes a plurality of arrays of radiating elements that are on the faces, respectively, of the reflector. Moreover, the base station antenna i...