ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,618, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Wide scanning patch antenna array" was invented by Mikhail Nikolaevich Makurin (Moscow) and Elena Aleksandrovna Shepeleva (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a wide scanning antenna array. The technical result consists in increasing the beam scanning range of the antenna array and the operating frequency range, simplifying the design of the antenna array and reducing losses. An antenna array is provided. The antenna array includes a plurality of antenna array elements. Each antenna array element of the plurali...