US Patent Issued to SoftBank on June 24 for "Phased array antenna, transmission apparatus, radio-power transmission system and radio communication system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,257, issued on June 24, was assigned to SoftBank Corp. (Tokyo).

"Phased array antenna, transmission apparatus, radio-power transmission system and radio communication system" was invented by Naoki Hasegawa (Tokyo) and Yoshichika Ota (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a two-dimensional phased array antenna having a simple configuration capable of reducing the number of control systems and the number of control input ports for phase control of antenna elements. The phased array antenna comprises a plurality of antenna elements arranged in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction, a plural...