ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,178, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Hawthorne, Calif.).

"Over-the-air calibration of antenna system" was invented by David Francois Jacquet (Vaulnaveys le Haut, France), Masoud Kahrizi (Irvine, Calif.), Robert Baummer Jr. (Redmond, Wash.), Jean-Noel Rozec (Pontoise, France), Fabrice Jean Andre Belveze (Claix, France), Paul Lee Pearson (Biviers, France), Francois Lucien Emile Icher (Grenoble, France), Marc Gens (Saint Martin d'Uriage, France) and Pascal Triaire (Jarrie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a first baseband section to receive a calibrati...