US Patent Issued to BAE Systems on April 29 for "Reconfigurable array for RF/analogue signals" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,134, issued on April 29, was assigned to BAE Systems PLC (London).

"Reconfigurable array for RF/analogue signals" was invented by Jason Le Leivre (Watchfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a reconfigurable array for facilitating dynamic combination and distribution of RF signals. The reconfigurable array comprises: (a) a number, Ni, of input devices for generating or supplying RF input signals; (b) a number, No, of output devices for analysing or forwarding RF output signals; (c) an optical switch matrix comprising a number, Np, of ports, wherein each of the ports is an optical input or an optical out...