ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,333, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Antenna for a satellite receiver" was invented by Mark L. Rentz (Torrance, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each antenna element within the array is oriented substantially coplanar with respect to the other antenna elements. The array overlies a primary dielectric substrate. A ground plane layer is spaced apart from the array of antenna elements by a first dielectric spacer. A beam-forming layer is spaced apart from the array of antenna elements by a second dielectric spacer. The beam-forming layer has a set of electrically conductive beam-forming antenna eleme...