ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,807, issued on July 29, was assigned to DKK COMPANY Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Array antenna" was invented by Keisuke Sato (Tokyo), Yusuke Suzuki (Tokyo) and Eiji Amakawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An array antenna having multiple elements transmits and receives electromagnetic waves via the elements. The array antenna has an electromagnetic wave control unit that inclines direction of transmission and reception of electromagnetic waves in at least a first direction by emitting electromagnetic waves of mutually different amplitudes or phases at the elements. The array antenna has multiple element columns having two or more N elements ...