ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,668, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
"Doubly conformal card-based AESA architecture" was invented by James B. West (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Jeremiah D. Wolf (Atkins, Iowa) and Jiwon L. Moran (Marion, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A doubly conformal AESA includes circuit cards with first and second printed circuit board (PCB) sections. The first PCB sections include radiating elements which define linear arrays which are disposed on a curved surface, or a first curve of the doubly conformal AESA. The second PCB sections include transmit/receive modules which control the radiating element...