ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,176, issued on June 30.
"Reflective phase shifter for use in phased arrays" was invented by Markus Novak (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, comprising a device including a circuit configured to produce a phase shift in a reflected signal, wherein a plurality of phase bits, which may be either switchable or static, are situated in parallel relative to one another within the device, wherein each switchable phase bit operates on a fraction of incident signal power, and wherein reflections from all parallel bits are recombined into a single signal reflected from the phase shifting device."
The patent was filed on Feb. 23,...