US Patent Issued to Swiftlink Technologies on May 20 for "Periodic mode-selective structure for surface wave scattering mitigation in millimeter wave antenna arrays" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,517, issued on May 20, was assigned to Swiftlink Technologies Inc. (Richmond, Canada).

"Periodic mode-selective structure for surface wave scattering mitigation in millimeter wave antenna arrays" was invented by Abhijit Bhattacharya (Burnaby, Canada), Robert Hill (Richmond, Canada) and Min-Yu Huang (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an RF front end includes an antenna array that is attached to a PCB. A structure is attached to the PCB. The structure has a plurality of concentric rings to enclose an antenna array on the PCB. Each of the plurality of concentric rings has a vertical portion att...