ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,445, issued on March 17, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vision based methods for directional antenna boresight alignment" was invented by Igal Kotzer (Tel Aviv, Israel), Tzvi Philipp (Bet Shemeseh, Israel), Michael Lawrence Mandziuk (Clarkston, Mich.) and Ofer Givati (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A testing system includes an antenna assembly having a directional antenna, the alignment of which can be adjusted with respect to a device under test. The directional antenna includes a horn having a housing having a side piece with an opening. A reflecting surface is movable through the ...