ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,657, issued on May 19, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Phase shifter, antenna and base station containing the phase shifter" was invented by Jiatong Liu (Beijing), Peiguang Lu (Beijing), Jianlan Li (Beijing) and Zhongliang He (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a phase shifter, including a cavity, a dielectric phase shifting unit located in the cavity, and a signal transmission line. The dielectric phase shifting unit is located between the cavity shell and a part of the signal transmission line. The dielectric phase shifting unit includes at le...