US Patent Issued to Denki Kogyo on June 30 for "Variable reflect array, and method for designing variable reflector array" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,177, issued on June 30, was assigned to Denki Kogyo Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Variable reflect array, and method for designing variable reflector array" was invented by Takayoshi Sasaki (Tokyo), Tanan Hongnara (Tokyo), Yoshiki Shirasawa (Tokyo) and Katsumori Sasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to make it possible to flexibly adjust the incidence wave directivity in a vertical plane or a horizontal plane by making the incident directivity reconfigurable. Provided is a variable reflect array, having a variable mechanism unit configured to change interval between the plurality of supercells, and, ...