ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,520, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Radio frequency beamforming device with cylindrical lens" was invented by Yehonatan Dallal (Kfar Saba, Israel), Idan Michael Horn (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some techniques and apparatuses described herein provide radio frequency (RF) beamforming using a cylindrical lens for implementing phased array beamforming in one direction and lensed beamforming in a second direction. In one example, an apparatus for wireless communication may include a cylindrical lens having a first surface and a second surface o...