ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,486, issued on March 31, was assigned to KYOCERA AVX Components (San Diego) Inc. (San Diego).

"Distributed control system for beam steering applications" was invented by Abhishek Singh (San Diego) and Laurent Desclos (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is described where the switch and/or tunable control circuit for use with an active multi-mode antenna is positioned remote from the antenna structure itself for integration into host communication systems. Electrical delay and impedance characteristics are compensated for in the design and configuration of transmission lines or parasitic elements as the active multi...