ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,349, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Kyocera AVX Components (San Diego) Inc. (San Diego).

"Active steering for millimeter wave signaling" was invented by Asim Ghalib (Poway, Calif.), Zhe Wang (San Diego) and Jesse Shihchieh Hsin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna configured to operate at millimeter wave frequencies is provided. The antenna includes a substrate and a ground plane. The antenna includes one or more active patch antenna elements that collectively define four corners, wherein the active patch antenna element(s) are positioned on a first surface of the substrate. The antenna includes four parasitic patch...