US Patent Issued to AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE, TESAT-SPACECOM on May 27 for "Active antenna especially for the space-technology field" (German, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,005, issued on May 27, was assigned to AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS (Toulouse, France) and TESAT-SPACECOM GmbH & Co. KG (Backnang, Germany).

"Active antenna especially for the space-technology field" was invented by Coraline Simon (Toulouse, France), Martin Kirsch (Backnang, Germany) and Klaus Schieber (Backnang, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active antenna is disclosed including a passive portion of an antenna array extended at one end by a plate in which apertures are formed, at least one active assembly for transmitting radiofrequency RF waves, called assembly, through said apertures, each assembly including a first ro...