ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,445, issued on April 21, was assigned to Phase Sensitive Innovations Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"Phased-array radio frequency receiver and methods of operation" was invented by Garrett Schneider (New Castle, Del.), Christopher Schuetz (Avondale, Pa.), Janusz Murakowski (Bear, Del.), Tom Dillon (Newark, Del.), Shouyuan Shi (Newark, Del.) and Dennis Prather (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An RF receiver may include antenna elements to receive RF signals, and electro-optic modulators to generate corresponding upconverted optical signals by mixing an RF signal with an optical carrier beam. The RF receiver may include a transmissi...