ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,647, issued on May 19, was assigned to Norsat International Inc. (Richmond, Canada).

"Compact high-performance dual-polarized quasi-omnidirectional MIMO antenna apparatus for 3G/4G/5G small-cell applications" was invented by Dong Wang (Waterloo, Canada), Yazi Cao (Newmarket, Canada) and Tong Li (Aurora, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of wireless telecommunication and discloses a compact, high-performance, dual-polarized, quasi-omnidirectional Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna system for small cell wireless communications. It develops a flexible platform to realize different...