ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,623, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Antenna module grounding for phased array antennas" was invented by Gordon Coutts (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies directed to overlaid shared aperture array with improved total efficiency are described. One RF structure includes a first antenna with a first set of antenna elements disposed on a first plane of a support structure and a second antenna with a second set of antenna elements disposed on a second plane of the support structure. A set of parasitic antenna elements are disposed on the first plane. Two adjacent anten...