ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,076, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TTP PLC (Royston, Great Britain).
"Phased array antenna" was invented by Vlad Lenive (Royston, Great Britain), Michael Lukin (Royston, Great Britain) and Adrian Hillier (Royston, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phased array antenna comprises an array of reflective cells, each cell being defined by a wall positioned within the array the wall arranged to define a waveguide, and having a moveable reflector positioned within the wall. Each reflector is arranged such that it is not in electrical contact with its respective wall and such that, in use it can be moved to tune the antenna...