ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,167, issued on July 28, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Dielectric filter unit and dielectric filter" was invented by Long Qiao (Shenzhen, China), Wei Bu (Shenzhen, China), Hongwei Gong (Shenzhen, China) and Zengqiang Wu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a dielectric filter unit and a dielectric filter, where the dielectric filter unit includes a first dielectric resonant cavity and a second dielectric resonant cavity. The first dielectric resonant cavity is provided with a first frequency hole in an upper end face or a lower end face of the first dielectric resonant cavity, and the second die...