ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,904, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Assembly for base station antenna, phase shifter and the base station antenna" was invented by Pengfei Guo (Suzhou, China) and Hangsheng Wen (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for a base station antenna includes a calibration device and at least one phase shifter mounted on the calibration device. The at least one phase shifter is electrically connected to the calibration device without a cable. The phase shifter may be mounted on the calibration device at an angle (e.g., perpendicular to the calibration device)."

The p...