US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin on Feb. 10 for "Modular full duplex aperture antenna subarrays" (Colorado, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,917, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Modular full duplex aperture antenna subarrays" was invented by Frank Lucchesi (Burnsville, Minn.), Timothy Patrick Wink (Castle Rock, Colo.) and Nathan Jastram (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are various enhancements for aperture antenna arrays and electronically steered arrays (ESAs). A modular subarray is provided that includes horn apertures coupled to corresponding waveguide polarizers coupled to transmit waveguide filters and receive waveguide filters that establish transmit ports and receive ports. The transmi...