ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,701, issued on April 7, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Base station antennas having f-style arrays that generate antenna beams having narrowed azimuth beamwidths" was invented by Sekharbabu Bunga (Sullurpeta, India), Kumara Swamy Kasani (GodavariKahani, India) and Ligang Wu (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Base station antennas include first and second RF ports, a first array of radiating elements that includes a first column of radiating elements, a first additional radiating element and a second additional radiating element, where each of the radiating elements in the first array of...