US Patent Issued to John Mezzalingua Associates on Jan. 20 for "Massive MIMO beamforming antenna with improved gain" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,337, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to John Mezzalingua Associates LLC (Liverpool, N.Y.).

"Massive MIMO beamforming antenna with improved gain" was invented by Niranjan Sundararajan (Clay, N.Y.) and Taehee Jang (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An 8T8R antenna has a plurality of columns of antenna elements whereby a subset of the columns are combined into a plurality of composite columns. In an example, the antenna has six columns of antenna elements whereby the two columns at either end of the array are combined into a composite column. The antenna ports corresponding to the two outer composite columns are coupled to a s...