ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,421, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Antenna device, feed device, and feed method" was invented by Masaaki Fujii (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna device includes circuitry to acquire, based on a second position, an elevation angle of a projected position that is obtained by projecting a first position onto a second plane including a first axis and a third axis, the elevation angle being relative to the third axis of the second plane. The circuitry controls a phase adjuster such that a direction of a beam defines the elevation angle for the second plane, based on phase da...