ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,276, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Circularly-polarized antennas with wide scanning ranges" was invented by Ahmed A. Sakr (New Cairo, Egypt).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "New antenna designs for realizing circularly-polarized antennas with a wide scanning range are disclosed. The designs are based on arranging four sequentially fed antenna patches to be considered as a single antenna element, referred to as a "super-element," in the overall phased array. An example super-element includes relatively short transmission lines to provide excitations for the vertically and h...