ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,871, issued on June 3, was assigned to KYMETA Corp. (Redmond, Wash.).

"Metasurface antenna with integrated varactor circuits" was invented by Mohsen Sazegar (Kirkland, Wash.), Hussein Esfahlani (Kirkland, Wash.), Cagdas Varel (Seattle), Seyed Mohamad Amin Momeni Hasan Abadi (Redmond, Wash.), Tung Pham (Renton, Wash.), Ryan Stevenson (Woodinville, Wash.), Witold Teller (Kirkland, Wash.), Mohammad Ranjbarnikkhah (Redmond, Wash.) and Paul Klassen (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antennas with integrated varactor circuits are described. The antenna may comprise metasurface antennas. In some embodiments, an antenna comprises ...