US Patent Issued to Viavi Solutions on April 29 for "Antenna fine tuning with a voltmeter associated with an antenna alignment device" (Virginia, Florida, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,922, issued on April 29, was assigned to Viavi Solutions Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Antenna fine tuning with a voltmeter associated with an antenna alignment device" was invented by Scott Pettygrove (Leesburg, Va.), Raleigh Benton Stelle IV (Indianapolis) and Eduardo Aries (Hollywood, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna alignment device includes an embedded (or is connected to) direct current (DC) voltmeter. In addition to using different sensors for azimuth and tilt alignment of an antenna, the DC voltmeter may be used to measure the DC voltage indicative of received signal strength at the antenna. The received signal may h...