US Patent Issued to Outdoor Wireless Networks on May 12 for "Beamforming antennas with omnidirectional coverage in the azimuth plane" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,034, issued on May 12, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Beamforming antennas with omnidirectional coverage in the azimuth plane" was invented by XiaoHua Hou (Richardson, Texas), Peter Bisiules (LaGrange Park, Ill.), Sammit Patel (Dallas), Ligang Wu (Suzhou, China) and Haifeng Li (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station antenna includes a plurality of pairs of RF ports, a tubular reflector, a plurality of columns of first frequency band radiating elements that are mounted to extend outwardly from the tubular reflector, the columns extending around a periphery of the tubular reflect...