ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,494, issued on May 26, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Tightly coupled array antenna and network device" was invented by Xianglong Liu (Shenzhen, China), Guanxi Zhang (Shanghai), Zhaoyang Tang (Shenzhen, China), Yanlin Zou (Xi'an, China), Dong Chen (Xi'an, China) and Guodong Zhao (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tightly coupled array antenna and a network device are provided. The tightly coupled array antenna includes a first dielectric slab and a plurality of antenna units printed on a lower surface of the first dielectric slab. Each of the antenna units includes a plurality of dipole a...