ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,247, issued on June 24, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Multi-port multi-functional meta-surface coplanar antenna system for beam steering control" was invented by Tapas Chakravarty (Kolkata, India), Amartya Banerjee (Kolkata, India), Arpan Pal (Kolkata, India) and Rowdra Ghatak (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to multi-port multi-functional meta-surface coplanar antenna system. Conventional electronic or mechanical solutions for beam steering incur high installation costs with less performance speed and bulk structures. The present disclosure provides m...