US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Sept. 30 for "Fiber based RF phased-array antennas" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,625, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Fiber based RF phased-array antennas" was invented by Alan J. Fenn (Wayland, Mass.), Alexander Stolyarov (Westford, Mass.), Siva Yegnanarayanan (Lexington, Mass.) and Lauren Cantley (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a flexible thermally-drawn receive phased array antenna and antenna system and a process for making the same. The phased array antenna system includes a plurality of antenna elements and one or more low noise amplifiers (LNAs) encapsulated in a fiber such as flexible polyetherimide (PEI) fiber m...