ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,493, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Low-profile high-efficiency wide-scanning antenna array" was invented by Jiantong Li (McKinney, Texas), Alireza Foroozesh (Los Angeles), Navneet Sharma (Allen, Texas), Won Suk Choi (McKinney, Texas) and Gang Xu (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a substrate, first and second transmission lines on the substrate, first antenna elements coupled to a first-first transmission line, and second antenna elements coupled to a first-second transmission line. A first distance between the adjacent first-first and first-s...