US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on March 24 for "Non-equilateral triangular grid radiating element and array of same" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,912, issued on March 24, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Non-equilateral triangular grid radiating element and array of same" was invented by Michael Buckley (Boyds, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiating element including: Higher order Floquet Structure (HOFS) layers comprising a top PCB metal layer, a mid PCB metal layer, and a low PCB metal layer; component layers comprising electronics to connect to the HOFS layers; and a unit cell constructively defined by the HOFS layers, wherein the unit cell is capable of operating as a transceiver, the unit cell has an operating range of 10.7 GHz to 14...