ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,181, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Mimosa Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"High-gain, omni-directional antenna systems for MIMO technologies" was invented by John Sanford (Escondido, Calif.), Brian L. Hinman (Los Gatos, Calif.), Justin Lee (Santa Clara, Calif.), Carlos Ramos (San Jose, Calif.) and Syed Aon Mujtaba (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High-gain, omni-directional antenna systems for MIMO technologies are disclosed herein. An example antenna system comprises two arrays of horizontally polarized radiating elements and two arrays of vertically polarized radiating elements. Each array has a roughly...