ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,001, issued on May 27, was assigned to KYMETA Corp. (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hybrid center-fed edge-fed metasurface antenna with dual-beam capabilities" was invented by Hamidreza Chalabi (Redmond, Wash.) and Mohsen Sazegar (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna and method for using the same having a hybrid feed approach. In some embodiments, the metasurface antenna with dual beam capabilities is feed with feed waves from a center-fed waveguide structure and an edge-fed waveguide structure. In some embodiments, the antenna comprises an array of radio-frequency (RF) radiating antenna elements and operable to generate two ...