ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,724, issued on May 5, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Phased-array antenna system" was invented by Mustafa Acar (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Lucas Maria Florentinus De Maaijer (Venlo, Netherlands) and Paul Mattheijssen (Boxtel, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phased-array antenna system includes a substrate and a plurality of sub-arrays. Each sub-array comprises an array of patch antennas arranged on a first major surface of the substrate; a plurality of beamformer devices coupled to the array of patch antennas; a multi-channel up-down converter (UDC) and a combiner-splitter coupled to the multi-channel UD...