US Patent Issued to John Mezzalingua Associates on May 5 for "Geared driver mechanism for a compact antenna phase shifter" (Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,704, issued on May 5, was assigned to John Mezzalingua Associates LLC (Liverpool, N.Y.).

"Geared driver mechanism for a compact antenna phase shifter" was invented by Nikhil Meshram (Southampton, Mass.) and Charles Buondelmonte (Baldwinsville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a compact phase shifter board for an antenna. The phase shifter board has at least one drive shaft having a drive bracket. The drive bracket has two slots oriented perpendicularly to the drive shaft. Each slot configured to engage with a drive pin of a first geared wiper arm such that translation motion of the drive shaft causes the first geared wi...