ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,601, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to All.Space Networks Ltd. (Reading, Great Britain).

"Circuit and system apparatus for synthesizing one or multiple beams on a switched-feed antenna" was invented by Sebastian Diebold (Reading, Great Britain), Vikas Sharma (Reading, Great Britain), Brian Murphy Billman (Baltimore) and Jeremiah P. Turpin (Linthicum, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit has at least one amplifier and a signal routing device such as one or more switches, and an array of antenna elements from which some subset must be enabled and processed at a time. The antenna elements can be grouped in accordance with an or...