ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,497, issued on March 31, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Microwave beam-forming antenna" was invented by Jung Nam Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Heon Kook Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kwang Seon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microwave beam-forming antenna may include: a main reflector installed on one surface of an antenna body; an array feed horn installed on a center portion of the main reflector; a sub-reflector disposed to be spaced apart from the array feed horn on the main reflector; and a plurality of waveguide feeds respectively conne...