ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,588, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to THE AEROSPACE Corp. (Segundo, Calif.).

"Ellipsoidal array antennas with modular unit cells" was invented by Mark J. Lange (Malibu, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ellipsoidal array antennas that include repeated, modular unit cells are disclosed. The ellipsoidal array antennas may be wide band array antennas with bandwidths exceeding one octave that are capable of handling high radio frequency (RF) power with high polarization purity and low-cost manufacturing for arrays with high element counts. The number of unit cells is given by (Element_Rows+1)*Element_Columns for single polarized arra...