ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,499, issued on July 15, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Polarization versatile radiator" was invented by Thomas V. Sikina (Acton, Mass.), Jack J. Schuss (Newton, Mass.), Izabella Furman (Natick, Mass.) and Robert S. Isom (Allen, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unit cell of an array antenna includes an integrated dilation and feed circuit and an associated radiator assembly. The integrated dilation and feed circuit includes an asymmetric dilation layer, an asymmetric combiner layer, a symmetric feed layer and a symmetric slot layer. Feed circuits on the feed layer are configured to couple radio frequency (RF) si...