ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,580, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Antenna and communication device" was invented by Hongbo Jing (Guangdong, China), Fei Cao (Guangdong, China), Dianping Xu (Guangdong, China) and Jianqiang Chen (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna includes a first patch and a second patch, where one of the first patch and the second patch is a choke patch, and the other one of the first patch and the second patch is a radiation patch. The first patch includes a first body, a first periodic slow wave line structure, and a first pad, the first body is provided with a first side and is provided wi...