ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,485, issued on March 31, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Antenna system, RF communication device, and method of operating the same" was invented by Haitao Liu (Beijing) and Chenglong Yin (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to an antenna system, a radio frequency (RF) communication device including the same, and a method of operating the same. The antenna system includes an antenna array including one or more sub-arrays of antenna elements in which at least one sub-array being operable in more than one state; a state switching circuit electrically coupled to t...