ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,855, issued on June 2, was assigned to Airbus (S.A.S.) (Blagnac, France) and Airbus Operations Ltd. (Filton, Great Britain).
"Antenna element and antenna array" was invented by Piotr Kaminski (Hamburg, Germany) and Yoann Thueux (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna element includes a first thin-film membrane, second thin-film membrane essentially parallel to and spaced apart from the first thin-film membrane, an electromagnetic metasurface on a first side of the first thin-film membrane opposite of the second thin-film membrane, and a metallic coating on a first side of the second thin-film membrane opposit...