US Patent Issued to Outdoor Wireless Networks on May 27 for "Reconfigurable multi-band base station antennas having self-contained sub-modules" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,009, issued on May 27, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Reconfigurable multi-band base station antennas having self-contained sub-modules" was invented by Sammit Patel (Dallas), Amit Kaistha (Coppell, Texas), Gangyi Deng (Allen, Texas), XiaoHua Hou (Richardson, Texas), Chengcheng Tang (Murphy, Texas) and Joy Huang (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Base station antennas include a main module that has a first backplane that includes a first reflector. A vertically-extending array of first radiating elements is mounted to extend forwardly from the first reflector, and at least one first RF p...