ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,758, issued on April 22, was assigned to Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Petah Tikva, Israel).

"System and methods for use with electronically steerable antennas for wireless communications" was invented by Ronen Stoleru (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Vesselin Peshlov (Sofia, Bulgaria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples disclosed herein describe an antenna with antenna elements that may be selectively activated and deactivated to define active apertures. The active apertures may be of different shapes and sizes. An antenna may include one active aperture or multiple active apertures at a point in time. These one or more active apertures ma...