ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,947, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KOREA ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Beam steering method and device using frequency modulation and phase shift" was invented by Jiwoong Yu (Sejong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a beam steering device of a phased array antenna for reducing a grating lobe, and more particularly, to a beam steering device of a phased array antenna for reducing a grating lobe so that grating lobes generated when receiving a signal by rotating an array of a plurality of antenna elements at a predetermined angle during transmission d...