ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,447, issued on April 21, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Submillimeter-wave phased arrays for electronic beam scanning" was invented by Goutam Chattopadhyay (Pasadena, Calif.), Cecile D. Jung-Kubiak (Pasadena, Calif.), Sofia Rahiminejad (Pasadena, Calif.), Subash Khanal (Pasadena, Calif.) and Sven L. Van Berkel (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phased array system comprising an array of antennas outputting or receiving electromagnetic radiation to or from a steerable direction, wherein the electromagnetic radiation is at submillimeter wavelengths. The system further comprises ...