ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,773, issued on July 29, was assigned to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Hawthorne, Calif.).
"Pan/tilt assembly for antenna apparatus" was invented by Erik N. Littleton (Los Angeles) and Duncan Edwin Adams (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a pan/tilt assembly for an antenna apparatus having a housing enclosing antenna components and a leg extending from the housing includes a first actuator for rotating a first gear, a second actuator for rotating a second gear, a third gear coupled to the leg and engaged by the first and second gears, and a tee having a first portion sub...