ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,890, issued on May 13, was assigned to APOTHYM TECHNOLOGIES GROUP LLC (Peachtree Corners, Ga.).
"High-gain, hemi-spherical coverage, multi-sided flattened Luneburg lens antenna" was invented by Soumitra Biswas (Peachtree Corners, Ga.), Howard Jetmundsen (Peachtree Corners, Ga.) and Shawn Rogers (Johns Creek, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiple flat sided modified Luneburg Lens antenna to provide a broadband hemi-spherical coverage. The Modified Luneburg Lens antenna has a flat surface at the bottom and quadrilateral/hexagonal/octagonal/decagon/dodecagon flat surfaces at the sides (e.g., "cupcake shaped") to manipulate the s...