ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,431, issued on April 14, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Antenna element and antenna array" was invented by Shengwei Kong (Shenzhen, China), Li Bu (Shenzhen, China), Shuiping Liu (Shenzhen, China), Rongli Wang (Shenzhen, China), Qixu Yang (Shenzhen, China), Weiming Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Zhibin Lin (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application relate to the technical field of communication, and disclose an antenna element and an antenna array, the antenna element including a dielectric substrate (10), a radiation unit (20) and a feed unit (30); a first support column (11) is p...