ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,140, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Phase shifting apparatus and antenna" was invented by Jianxing Liu (Beijing), Jia Fang (Beijing) and Shiyu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase shifting apparatus includes N phase shifters; where Nless than=2 and N is an integer. Each phase shifter includes a first dielectric substrate, a second dielectric substrate, a tunable dielectric layer, a first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer. The first dielectric substrate and the second dielectric substrate are opposite to each other, the tunable dielectric layer is between the f...