US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on June 9 for "Electrically steered dielectric beamformer" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,835, issued on June 9, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Electrically steered dielectric beamformer" was invented by Scott R. Burnside (Rescue, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The proposed dielectric beamformer may be used to provide beam-forming of a transmitted radio-frequency (RF) signal. The dielectric beamformer includes a dielectric lens that provides a means of quickly steering a peak beam of the RF signal in a specific direction, allowing tracking of a distant signal, or multiple distant signals. Moreover, the beam of the RF signal can be steered to place a null in a chose direction to ...