US Patent Issued to NXP on July 21 for "Frequency beam-steered substrate-integrated antennas" (California, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,130, issued on July 21, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Frequency beam-steered substrate-integrated antennas" was invented by Dongyin Ren (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ryan Haoyun Wu (San Jose, Calif.) and Baokun Liu (Kokomo, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frequency beam-steered leaky wave antenna suitable for integration in a substrate such as a printed circuit board includes a waveguide formed from a first electrically-conductive surface and a second electrically conductive surfaces forming upper and lower surfaces of the waveguide and electrically-conductive vias form first and second sidewalls disposed between...