ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,671, issued on March 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Angled meshed patch antenna array" was invented by Ali Molaei (Chicago), Eddie Charles Burgess (Chicago) and Mohammad Reza Ghajar (Redwood, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example wireless communication device includes a multi-layer substrate; and an antenna array having planes formed by features of the multi-layer substrate, wherein the features of the multi-layer substrate that form the planes of the antenna array include a plurality of vias and a plurality of traces arranged in a mesh structure, and wherein an angle between the planes of the ante...