ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,447, issued on July 15, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"RF signal transmission device for base station antenna, phase shifter and base station antenna" was invented by Xun Zhang (Suzhou, China) and Zhigang Wang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "RF signal transmission devices for a base station antenna include a printed circuit board which has a dielectric layer, a metal pattern layer on a first main surface of the dielectric layer, and a ground layer on a second main surface of the dielectric layer. The metal pattern layer has a transmission line deformation section for enhancing the ab...