ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,656, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Phase Sensitive Innovations Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"Two-dimensional conformal optically-fed phased array and methods of manufacturing the same" was invented by Shouyuan Shi (Newark, Del.), Dennis Prather (Newark, Del.), Peng Yao (Newark, Del.) and Janusz Murakowski (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to two-dimensional conformal optically-fed phased arrays and methods for manufacturing the same. The method includes providing a substrate, depositing a first cladding layer on the substrate, and depositing a core layer on the first cladding layer. The method furthe...