US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives on March 24 for "Reconfigurable antenna array" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,926, issued on March 24, was assigned to Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives (Paris).

"Reconfigurable antenna array" was invented by Hussein Jaafar (Grenoble, France), Serge Bories (Grenoble, France) and Raffaele D'Errico (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconfigurable antenna array including a plurality of identical elementary unit cells, each unit cell having at least one symmetry and being a square unit cell, and including a radiating element having at least four ports distributed in pairs on either side of each median on one side of a unit cell, the antenna array additionally includin...