ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,313, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Modular architecture for feeding a phased antenna array" was invented by Mikko Varonen (Espoo, Finland), Dristy Parveg (Espoo, Finland), Pekka Rantakari (Espoo, Finland), Antti Lamminen (Espoo, Finland), Vladimir Ermolov (Espoo, Finland), Jussi Saily (Espoo, Finland) and Timo Karttaavi (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a modular architecture for transmitting and/or receiving radio frequency (RF) signals using a phased antenna array. A first portion of the RF signal is transmitted/received by a mas...