ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,460, issued on April 21, was assigned to Matsing Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Array fed RF lens antenna" was invented by Serguei Matitsine (Dallas), John Stewart Wilson (San Clemente, Calif.) and Igor Timofeev (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system includes an array of RF elements that transit and/or receive signals through a lens, and a power divider is configured to provide unequal amplitude and/or phase to at least some of the RF elements. In transmit mode, the shape and direction of the resulting beam is controlled in part by the shape of the array, the relative power distributed to the different RF elements, t...