ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,441, issued on April 14, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Metasurface beam steering antenna and method of setting antenna beam angle" was invented by Tapas Chakravarty (Kolkata, India), Aman Kumar (Kolkata, India) and Arpan Pal (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to metasurface beam steering antenna and method of setting antenna beam angle. Conventional approaches perform electronically beam steering using phase array which requires bandwidth with higher data rates. The present disclosure enables metasurface antennas tilt antenna beam in a given direction, ...