US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Dec. 2 for "Multi-beam antenna using higher-order modes" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,206, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Multi-beam antenna using higher-order modes" was invented by So Hyeun Yun (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an array antenna comprising a plurality of array elements. The plurality of array elements are formed as a coupler including a central element and peripheral elements configured to surround the central element; each of the central element and the peripheral elements is formed as a waveguide; and the peripheral elements are excited in higher-order modes using coupling slots to form ...