ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,844, issued on April 1, was assigned to MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Corp. (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada).

"Direct radiating array assembly of an antenna" was invented by Guillaume Deuchst (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada), Benjamin Huneault (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada), Billy Marquez (Laval, Canada), Yann Van der Bruggen (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada) and Stephen Wilson (Pointe Claire, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Increasing demand for communications systems for facilitating communications such as communications satellites leads to continuously increasing frequency bands of the signal for communication and ...