ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,654, issued on May 19, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"In-field calibration antenna using parasitic elements of a phased array antenna" was invented by Zachary Thomas Miers (Duvall, Wash.), Kasra Ghaemi (Redmond, Wash.) and Tara Yousefi (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies directed to a customer terminal (CT) with an in-field calibration antenna using parasitic elements of a phased array antenna are described. Once deployed, the CT can establish a communication link with a satellite (SAT) in a satellite network. The CT can also calibrate the phased array antenna using the calibration anten...