ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,143, issued on April 1, was assigned to Northwood Space Corp. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for facilitating detection of baseband signals in radio-frequency communication" was invented by Griffin Cleverly (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for communicating radio-frequency (RF) signals includes a receiver subsystem that employs a phased antenna array, and signal spreading of the respective responses of the elements of the phased antenna array. The codes used for spreading are unique to each antenna element. The spread signals are combined and analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) is applied to the co...