US Patent Issued to VIASAT on Oct. 14 for "Antenna apparatus employing coplanar waveguide interconnect between RF components" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,858, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to VIASAT INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Antenna apparatus employing coplanar waveguide interconnect between RF components" was invented by Steven J. Franson (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna apparatus includes an antenna substrate having a first surface and an opposite second surface, with an antenna ground plane at the second surface. An antenna element is at the first surface of the antenna substrate. A first RF component is attached to the second surface of the antenna substrate and includes RF circuitry to adjust a signal communicated with the antenna element. A second R...