ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,720, issued on May 5, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Terahertz band beamforming antenna system" was invented by Moon Il Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Yang Woo Kim (Cheonan-si, South Korea) and Yun Kyeong Koh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a terahertz band beamforming antenna system. A terahertz band beamforming antenna system includes: a metal waveguide top portion; and a metal waveguide bottom portion which is coupled to the metal waveguide top portion, and at which an antenna portion including a feed transmission line and a radiation antenna is pos...