ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,853, issued on Feb. 10.

"Systems and methods for shaping beams produced by antenna arrays" was invented by Mark Popov (Ramat Gan, Israel), Tom Harel (Shefayim, Israel), Yuval Lomnitz (Herzeliya, Israel), Ilan Hayat (Givat Ada, Israel), Naftali Chayat (Kfar Saba, Israel), Damian Hoffman (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Orel Ron (Rishon Letsiyon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antenna array systems and methods for generating an antenna array transmission pattern having a spatial directional distribution of effective power characterized by a low Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR). An excitation phase sequence is generated having elements ...