ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,663, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to OUTDOOR WIRELESS NETWORKS LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Base station antennas having an active antenna module and related devices and methods" was invented by XiaoHua Hou (Richardson, Texas), Yongjie Xu (Shanghai), Xiang Li (Shanghai), Peter J. Bisiules (LaGrange Park, Ill.), Samantha Merta (Richardson, Texas), Haifeng Li (Richardson, Texas), Mohammad Vatankhah Varnoosfaderani (Richardson, Texas), Bo Wu (Suzhou, China), Xiaohua Tian (Suzhou, China), Junfeng Yu (Suzhou, China), Dongmin Wang (Suzhou, China), Shanguang Zhang (Suzhou, China) and Jian Liu (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Base...