ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,861, issued on April 1, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Integrated additively manufactured modular aperture antenna" was invented by Jacob Tamasy (Nashua, N.H.), Matthew A. Cerniway (Madison, Ala.) and Alexander D. Johnson (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a frame and at least one printed circuit board attached to the frame. The frame includes an integrated aperture antenna array and an antenna feed in electrical communication with the at least one printed circuit board. The integrated aperture antenna array further includes a first conduc...