ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,705, issued on April 7, was assigned to i5 Technologies Inc. (North Logan, Utah) and Utah State University (Logan, Utah).

"Space-wave phase-shifting array" was invented by Asaduzzaman Towfiq (Logan, Utah) and Bedri A. Cetiner (North Logan, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconfigurable antenna array includes a plurality of emitting antennas, a plurality of drive inputs corresponding to respective emitting antennas of the plurality of emitting antennas and configured to receive drive signals for the respective emitting antennas, a plurality of controllable components that are controllable to perform space-wave phase shifting on ...