US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin on July 21 for "Horn antennas with integrated feeds" (Colorado, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,129, issued on July 21, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Horn antennas with integrated feeds" was invented by Jason Stewart Wrigley (Littleton, Colo.), Frank Lucchesi (Burnsville, Minn.) and Nathan Jastram (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are various enhancements for feed networks and aperture assemblies in radio frequency transmit/receive systems. In one example an apparatus includes a horn aperture integrated with a multimode feed network that can be monolithically fabricated in a single piece. The multimode feed network comprises a first feed section coupled between a fi...