ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,354, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to KYMETA Corp. (Redmond, Wash.).

"Broad tunable bandwidth radial line slot antenna" was invented by Mohsen Sazegar (Kirkland, Wash.) and Ibrahim Nassar (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antennas and methods for using the same are described. In one embodiment, the antenna comprises an aperture having a plurality of radio-frequency (RF) radiating antenna elements, the plurality of RF radiating antenna elements being grouped into three or more sets of RF radiating antenna elements, with each set being separately controlled to generate a beam at a frequency band in a first mode."

The pate...