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Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2017
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);

Inventors:

Roland W. Hicks, Jr., Annandale, NJ (US);

Glenn A. Wellbrock, Wylie, TX (US);

Tiejun J. Xia, Richardson, TX (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/44 (2006.01); H01B 11/22 (2006.01); H04B 10/2575 (2013.01); H04B 10/80 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/25753 (2013.01); G02B 6/4416 (2013.01); H01B 11/22 (2013.01); H04B 10/808 (2013.01); H04W 88/085 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems described herein provide antenna elements, each of which contains an antenna array and electronics, built into a fiber optic aerial cable to form a hybrid cable. The hybrid cable has a fiber buffer tube including one or more fiber cores, an outer sheath surrounding the fiber buffer tube, and a distributed array of antenna elements integrated along a length of the hybrid fiber optic cable. Each of the antenna elements includes an antenna and control electronics for the antenna.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Hicks, Jr., Roland. (2019). Wireless infrastructure with distributed fiber networks (U.S. Patent No. 10218441). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10218441

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