US Patent Issued to Alpha Networks on July 28 for "Antenna system with switchable horizontal half-power beamwidth" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,173, issued on July 28, was assigned to Alpha Networks Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Antenna system with switchable horizontal half-power beamwidth" was invented by De-Chang Su (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Kuang-Wei Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna system with a switchable horizontal half-power beamwidth includes: a ground plane module including rows of patch groups that jointly form a ground plane; an antenna unit spaced apart from the ground plane by an interval; and a control module that can receive at least one beam control message. Each two adjacent rows of the patch groups are provided therebetw...