ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,477, issued on March 31, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Antenna, antenna array and mobile communication base station" was invented by Martin Gullner (Stephanskirchen, Germany), Maximilian Obermayer (Rosenheim, Germany) and Andreas Vollmer (Rosenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna has a base body and a metallic conductive structure applied to the base body, wherein the base body comprises a flat cover portion and walls extending perpendicularly away from the cover portion. The conductive structure has at least one radiator provided at the cover portion, at least one feeding li...