ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,498, issued on July 15, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France), UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX (Bordeaux, France), INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE BORDEAUX (Talence, France) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris).

"Elementary antenna of the polarization agile type and of the cavity antenna type, array antenna comprising a plurality of such elementary antennas" was invented by Timothee Le Gall (Talence, France), Anthony Ghiotto (Talence, France), Gwenael Morvan (Montigny le Bretonneux, France), Stefan Varault (Meudon, France) and Bruno Louis (Saint Maur des Fosses, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This elementary antenna...