ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,796, issued on July 1, was assigned to Anduril Industries Inc. (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

"Compact, high-efficiency radar assembly" was invented by Evan Jackson Everett (Fort Collins, Colo.), James Nathaniel Knight (Fort Collins, Colo.), Andrew Scott Mank (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Erik George Moore (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an array antenna divided into a plurality of sub-arrays disposed along a first dimension, wherein each sub-array comprises: a plurality of frequency scannable elements disposed along the first dimension and a plurality of phase shifters or transmit/receive (T/R) modules disposed alo...