US Patent Issued to Viavi Solutions on Jan. 13 for "Smart mount for coupling an antenna alignment device to an antenna" (Florida, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,698, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Viavi Solutions Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Smart mount for coupling an antenna alignment device to an antenna" was invented by Raleigh Benton Stelle IV (Indianapolis) and Thomas Sevilla (Miramar, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example smart antenna mount may couple an antenna alignment device with an antenna. The smart antenna mount may include sensors such as strain gauges and accelerometers, and an electronic circuitry to communicate the measurements from the sensors. The measurements are received by the antenna alignment device, which may perform further operations to determine whether...