ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,423, issued on July 7, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Antenna systems having radiating elements therein that are paired with high performance lenses" was invented by Haifeng Li (Allen, Texas), Peter J. Bisiules (LaGrange Park, Ill.), Rui An (Allen, Texas) and Chengcheng Tang (Murphy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna includes a radiating element on a forward-facing surface of an underlying reflector, and a lens extending in front of and within a radio frequency (RF) transmission path of the radiating element. The lens includes a two-dimensional array of lens elements having at least t...