ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,175, issued on June 30, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Antenna and method" was invented by Robert Bieber (Rosenheim, Germany), Jan Sandberg (Frillesas, Sweden) and Oskar Talcoth (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "We generally describe an antenna, in particular a parabolic antenna, comprising: a primary reflector, in particular a parabolic dish, a feed antenna and/or a secondary reflector for transmitting and/or reflecting an electromagnetic wave towards the primary reflector and/or receiving a said electromagnetic wave reflected from the primary reflector, a feed coupled to the fe...