ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,933, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Phased array antenna for commercial satellite communications (SATCOM)" was invented by Wyman Williams (Atlanta), Christopher Coen (Atlanta), Diandian Chen (Atlanta) and Daniel Dykes (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary embodiment provides an array antenna, comprising a transmitter aperture and a receiver aperture. The transmitter aperture can comprise a first plurality of printed circuit boards, each comprising first arrays of radiating elements. Each of the radiating elements in the first arrays of radiating elements can comprise first ar...