US Patent Issued to MetaVC Patent Holding on Dec. 9 for "Beamforming via sparse activation of antenna elements connected to phase advance waveguides" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,573, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MetaVC Patent Holding Co. (Sisters, Ore.).

"Beamforming via sparse activation of antenna elements connected to phase advance waveguides" was invented by Guy S. Lipworth (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein include a two-dimensional antenna array of antenna pixels having length and width dimensions of less than one-half of an operational wavelength. In various examples, each antenna pixel comprises a fixed number of phase-adjustable antenna elements. The antenna elements of each antenna pixel may be coupled to the waveguide with interelement spacings selecte...