ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,604, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to LeoLabs Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"2D phased array antenna panel with contoured edges" was invented by Craig Robert Trumbull (San Francisco), John J. Buonocore (Redwood City, Calif.), Aaron Carroll (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Matthew Alan Stevenson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Two-dimensional (2D) phased-array antenna panels having contoured edges. When combined with like 2D phased-array antenna panels to form a 2D phased-array antenna module, antenna elements located along each contoured edge of a given 2D antenna panel are separated by a first distance from a corresponding an...