US Patent Issued to ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLtd. on Sept. 15 for "Apparatus and methods for staircase antennas" (Egyptian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,656, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLtd. COMPANY (Limerick, Ireland).

"Apparatus and methods for staircase antennas" was invented by Islam A. Eshrah (Giza, Egypt) and Ahmed M. Refaey (Giza, Egypt).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for staircase antennas are disclosed. In certain embodiments, patch antenna elements are formed on two or more conductive layers of a circuit board with the patch antenna elements interconnected by vias to form a staircase-shaped antenna. The staircase antenna communicates using a tilted beam during normal operation (for instance, with no phase shift). ...