ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,953, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Optisys Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Alignment and constraining devices for maintaining positional optimizations between antenna array components" was invented by Robert Smith (Salt Lake City), Davin Phillips (Salt Lake City) and Michael Hollenbeck (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dielectric inserts providing positional support for components of antenna arrays. A system includes a coaxial pin in electromagnetic communication with an antenna array, and a dielectric insert configured to provide positional support for the coaxial pin. The dielectric insert includes a shaft comprising a ce...