US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on March 17 for "Scalable electronically steerable antenna for L-band communication" (British, Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,307, issued on March 17, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Scalable electronically steerable antenna for L-band communication" was invented by Rajesh Chivukula (Bangalore, India), David Muirhead (Cheltenham, Great Britain), Sean McGinnis (Cambridge, Canada) and Sam Barrett (Bromsgrove, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronically steerable antenna for L-band satellite communication, the antenna comprising: a patch antenna including: four antenna elements spaced apart in a patch plane to form a two-by-two grid with a spacing between each antenna element of less than a half wavelength, ...