US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on March 11 for "Beam steering and nulling for a differentially segmented aperture antenna" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,771, issued on March 11, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio).

"Beam steering and nulling for a differentially segmented aperture antenna" was invented by Daniel A. Perkins (Lewis Center, Ohio) and Raphael J. Welsh (Powell, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beam steering system includes a differentially segmented aperture antenna comprising a plurality of pyramid structures arranged in an array, and a plurality of elements formed in an array, each element being defined between two adjacent pyramid structures; phase conversion circuitry to determine a phase conversion for each element, the phase conversion...