US Patent Issued to Kyocera AVX Components (San Diego) on June 17 for "Reconfigurable multi-mode active antenna system" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,649, issued on June 17, was assigned to Kyocera AVX Components (San Diego) Inc. (San Diego).

"Reconfigurable multi-mode active antenna system" was invented by Laurent Desclos (San Diego) and Chun-Su Yoon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconfigurable antenna system is described which combines active and passive components used to impedance match, alter the frequency response, and change the radiation pattern of an antenna. Re-use of components such as switches and tunable capacitors make the circuit topologies more space and cost effective, while reducing complexity of the control signaling required. Antenn...