US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on May 27 for "Controlled-radiation antenna system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,997, issued on May 27, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Controlled-radiation antenna system" was invented by Serge Bories (Grenoble, France) and Antonio Clemente (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description concerns an antenna system comprising a transmitting or receiving antenna element (12), an array of parasitic antenna elements (14), individually associated with reconfigurable loads (15), one or a plurality of near-field antennas (32), and a circuit (18, 34) for setting the configuration of the array of parasitic antenna elements according to a ra...