ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,960, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Base station antennas" was invented by Joy Huang (Plano, Texas), Haifeng Li (Richardson, Texas) and Calvin Dickerson (Garland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Base station antennas include a base station antenna housing with laterally extending struts laterally extending forward and rearward arms and with a reflector coupled therebetween and with longitudinally extending struts that couple to the laterally extending struts and extend in a longitudinal direction along a portion of a length of the base station antenna housing."

The patent ...