US Patent Issued to European Space Agency on Dec. 30 for "Waveguide feed array with overlapping clusters for use in a transmit/receive multiple-feed-per-beam single reflector antenna system" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,602, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to European Space Agency (Paris).

"Waveguide feed array with overlapping clusters for use in a transmit/receive multiple-feed-per-beam single reflector antenna system" was invented by Nelson Fonseca (Noordwijk, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waveguide feed array includes overlapping clusters of elementary feeds, each feed configured to operate in at least two distinct frequency bands with dual-polarization in each frequency band. The feeds have at least four waveguide ports each, one for each pairing of frequency band polarization, and are connected through beamforming networks, one ...