ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,282, issued on July 14, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Four-port omnidirectional antenna" was invented by Kwok Wa Leung (Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong), Xu Han (Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong) and Peng Fei Hu (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A four-port omnidirectional antenna comprising a dielectric resonator, a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate comprising two sets of feed lines adapted for providing two transverse magnetic (TM) modes, one of which is provided in a higher order. The second substrate also comprises two sets of feed lines adapted for providing two trans...