ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,271, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Alpha Networks Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Horizontally polarized omnidirectional multi-band antenna structure" was invented by Guan-Ting Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Kuang-Wei Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A horizontally polarized omnidirectional multi-band antenna structure includes a substrate and two structurally-symmetric radiators, each being provided on a layout area on one of the two opposite sides of the substrate, and including a X-shaped primary microstrip line, four secondary microstrip lines, four primary stubs, four secondary stubs and four resonators. The primary...