ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,154, issued on May 6, was assigned to Anokiwave Inc. (San Diego).

"Phased array control circuit for controlling directivity of a beam-formed signal" was invented by Kristian N. Madsen (Napa, Calif.), Wade C. Allen (San Diego), Jonathan P. Comeau (San Diego), Robert J. McMorrow (Concord, Mass.), David W. Corman (Gilbert, Ariz.), Nitin Jain (San Diego), Robert Ian Gresham (San Diego), Gaurav Menon (San Marcos, Calif.) and Vipul Jain (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Register banks are used to allow for fast beam switching in a phased array system. Each beam forming channel is associated with a register bank containing M re...