ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,270, issued on June 24, was assigned to SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangzhou, China).

"Aperture-shared dual-wideband antenna and its design method" was invented by Yuehui Cui (Guangdong, China), Guoyan Shen (Guangdong, China) and Quan Xue (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aperture-sharing method for a dual-band aperture-shared antenna. By means of the method, a first dielectric substrate is arranged directly above a floor, a second dielectric substrate is arranged between the floor and the first dielectric substrate; a first meta surface, a first radiation ring, a second radiation ring and a second meta s...