US Patent Issued to MediaTek on Nov. 11 for "Transmitting or receiving circularly polarized signals by linearly polarized antennas" (British, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,242, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Transmitting or receiving circularly polarized signals by linearly polarized antennas" was invented by Shao-Chou Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Bao-Chi Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Chia Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), I-Kang Fu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Abdelkader Medles (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Gilles Charbit (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an apparatus for transmitting a circularly polarized signal by linearly polarized antennas. A horizontally polarized antenna and a vertically polarized antenna of the apparatus receives a first circular...