US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on June 3 for "Shared transmit and receive aperture linear array" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,867, issued on June 3, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Shared transmit and receive aperture linear array" was invented by Junyu Shen (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements of transmit and receive shared-aperture array antenna systems are presented herein. The arrangements can include an antenna that includes: a planar substrate; a first row of a first plurality of transmit patches arranged on the planar substrate; a second row of a plurality of receive patches arranged on the planar substrate; and a third row of a second plurality of transmit patches arranged on the planar s...