ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,245, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CesiumAstro Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Hybrid digital delay beamforming circuits and methods" was invented by James Wesley McCoy (Leander, Texas), Thomas Magesacher (Austin, Texas) and Tanim Taher (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit may include a phase shifting/partial beamforming network circuit and a plurality of true time delay (TTD) circuits. The beamforming circuit may include a plurality of receive inputs. Each receive input may be coupled to one of a plurality of antenna elements. The beamforming circuit may include a plurality of receive/transmit connecto...