US Patent Issued to THALES on Feb. 3 for "Satellite platform and method for reconfiguring the electromagnetic beam of such a satellite platform" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,377, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to THALES (Meudon, France).

"Satellite platform and method for reconfiguring the electromagnetic beam of such a satellite platform" was invented by Herve Legay (Plaisance du Touche, France) and Segolene Tubau (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite platform includes an array of N antennas (Ai, i=1 to 6) and a beamformer, each antenna comprising the satellite casing and a respective metal strand (i=1 to 6) extending in the plane of the Earth face of the satellite, such that if Nless than2, the axis of the nth strand on the Earth face of the satellite is obtained by rotation of +2...