US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on July 28 for "Antenna assembly including two-dimensional surface wave fed array for azimuth gain control" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,171, issued on July 28, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Antenna assembly including two-dimensional surface wave fed array for azimuth gain control" was invented by John Karl Blauert (Westfield, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna assembly including: a circuit board with an integrated circuit configured to process a radio frequency (RF) signal; a waveguide plate including a waveguide configured to guide the RF signal at least one of to and from a conductive trace extending from the integrated circuit; and a conductive top plate over the waveguide plate. The conductive top plate includes: ...