US Patent Issued to SoftBank on April 15 for "Suppression of reflected wave interference from antenna-mounting plate in service link of haps" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,422, issued on April 15, was assigned to SoftBank Corp. (Tokyo).

"Suppression of reflected wave interference from antenna-mounting plate in service link of haps" was invented by Shoichi Sudo (Tokyo), Kenji Hoshino (Tokyo) and HoYu Lin (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an aerial-staying type communication relay apparatus that can suppress fluctuations in a directivity pattern due to reflection at an antenna-mounting member to which a service link antenna is mounted, stably fix a footprint of a cell, and as a result, prevent deterioration of communication quality. The communication relay apparatus includes an antenna hav...