ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,212, issued on July 28, was assigned to John Mezzalingua Associates LLC (Liverpool, N.Y.).

"Folded mid band dipole with improved low band transparency" was invented by Jiaqiang Zhu (Baldwinsville, N.Y.), Wengang Chen (Jamesville, N.Y.) and Niranjan Sundararajan (Clay, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A midband dipole for a multiband antenna has a plurality of decoupler circuits; a plurality of dipole arms, each having a first region, a second region, and a connecting trace coupling the first region to the second region, wherein the first region is coupled to one of the plurality of decoupler circuits, and the second region is coup...