US Patent Issued to Space Exploration Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Integrated signal chain for an antenna assembly" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,284, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Starbase, Texas).

"Integrated signal chain for an antenna assembly" was invented by Anders Jensen (Beaux Arts, Wash.) and Samuel T. Reineman (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated signal chain includes a waveguide network defined by first and second waveguide layers forming a waveguide stack. A first transmit waveguide channel (WGC) is configured to communicate first transmit electromagnetic signals from a first transmit port to an antenna feed port, and a first receive WGC is configured to communicate first receive electromagnetic si...