US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on March 31 for "Rapid-deployment hemispherical active electronically scanned array (AESA) for mobile satellite communication (satcom) operations" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,484, issued on March 31, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Rapid-deployment hemispherical active electronically scanned array (AESA) for mobile satellite communication (satcom) operations" was invented by James B. West (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Jiwon L Moran (Marion, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite communications (satcom) terminal apparatus includes an active electronically scanned array (AESA) having stowed and deployed configurations and attachable atop a mobile platform or other flat surface. The AESA comprises a set of panels, each panel a subarray of AESA elements. A set of side panels ...