ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,679, issued on March 3, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio).

"Circuit architectures for a differentially segmented aperture antenna" was invented by Raphael J. Welsh (Powell, Ohio), Daniel A. Perkins (Lewis Center, Ohio), Daniel G. Loesch (Sunbury, Ohio) and Douglas A. Thornton (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to a system for a differentially segmented aperture (DSA) antenna includes protrusions arranged in an array, and pixels formed in an array, each pixel formed between two adjacent protrusions; and one or more signal chains, each including: transmit circuitry comprising digita...