ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,148, issued on July 8, was assigned to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Hawthorne, Calif.).

"Antenna apparatus having chassis portion" was invented by Duncan E. Adams (Redmond, Wash.) and David Milroy (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a housing for an antenna system having a plurality of antenna elements defining an antenna aperture includes a chassis portion having an internal support portion for internal components for the plurality of antenna elements including a bonding portion for bonding an antenna stack assembly to the chassis portion, and a radome portion configur...