US Patent Issued to Viasat on Oct. 7 for "Multi-beam phased array antenna with disjoint sets of subarrays" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,581, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Multi-beam phased array antenna with disjoint sets of subarrays" was invented by Maria Vigano (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Nicholas Hedberg (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-beam phased array antenna system includes a beamformer responsive to control signals to convert between a plurality of subarray signals and a plurality of beam signals. The system also includes a plurality of subarrays to communicate a plurality of beams corresponding to the plurality of beam signals. Each subarray includes a plurality of radiating elements. Each sub...