ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,032, issued on May 27, was assigned to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Dual-frequency and dual-circularly-polarized transmit-array antenna with independently controllable beams" was invented by Zhihao Jiang (Jiangsu, China), Xuanfeng Tong (Jiangsu, China) and Wei Hong (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-frequency and dual-circularly-polarized transmit-array antenna with independently controllable beams includes a planar broadband circularly polarized feed array and a planar transmit-array, the planar broadband circularly polarized feed array being placed near a focal plane of the planar transmit-array. The p...