US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on July 14 for "Integrated high frequency horn and ridge polarizer" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,288, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Integrated high frequency horn and ridge polarizer" was invented by Graham Taylor (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unitary one-piece construction feed for a high frequency band antenna, the feed including: a feed horn; and a polarizer comprising a void and multiple sets of ridges disposed in the void, wherein the polarizer is in direct contact with the feed horn and the unitary one-piece construction feed is capable of operating with a carrier signal ranging across one or two consecutive bands selected from Ku, K, Ka and Q bands, ...