ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,873, issued on April 8, was assigned to SAAB AB (Linkoping, Sweden).
"Antenna array" was invented by Henri Kahkonen (Tampere, Finland), Juha Ala-Laurinaho (Espoo, Finland) and Ville Viikari (Espoo, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an antenna array including an integral antenna element structure mounted on a substrate. The integral antenna element structure includes a first set of antenna elements and a second set of antenna elements. Each antenna element including a first body and an adjacent second body. The second body is branched into a first leg and a second leg, wherein a transition pin fo...