ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,678, issued on May 19, was assigned to ALPHA NETWORKS INC. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Magneto-electric dipole antenna array" was invented by Ta-Chuan Bai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ding-Bing Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Sung-Nien Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ming-Chieh Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magneto-electric dipole antenna array includes a substrate and at least one antenna unit. Each of the at least one antenna unit includes an electric-dipole component, a magnetic-dipole component, a first feeding probe, a second feeding probe and a stripline. The electric-dipole component is disposed on an upper surface of the substrate. T...