US Patent Issued to Fujikura, International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Phased array antenna" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,620, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Fujikura Ltd. (Tokyo) and International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Phased array antenna" was invented by Kiyoshi Kobayashi (Sakura, Japan), Ken Sakuma (Sakura, Japan), Mark Yeck (Bloomingdale, N.J.), Bodhisatwa Sadhu (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Arun Paidimarri (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phased array antenna (1) includes: a plurality of antenna elements (11a to 11d); a plurality of signal paths (R11 and R12) that are connected to each of the antenna elements; a storage unit (M) configured to store a set values of at least one of amplitudes or phases of a signal p...