US Patent Issued to The Boeing on March 18 for "Low cost electronically scanning antenna array architecture" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,407, issued on March 18, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Low cost electronically scanning antenna array architecture" was invented by Alec Adams (Seattle), Mark Gregory Bedson (Federal Way, Wash.), Lixin Cai (Ravensdale, Wash.), Ming Chen (Bellevue, Wash.), Peter Timothy Heisen (Kent, Wash.) and Korey Martin Holmstrom (Kent, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antenna elements include a metallic square ring patch and a metallic square ring slot to transmit or receive radio frequency (RF) signals. The antenna elements use several dielectric layers that are separated by a low-dielectric foam layer upon which the squ...