ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,852, issued on June 2, was assigned to Teltrium Inc. (Greenbelt, Md.).

"Highly efficient parabolic antenna configured with corrective meta surface structure" was invented by Richard Lafontaine (Bethesda, Md.), Yiru Zhou (Potomac, Md.) and Ryan Kian (Sterling, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Corrective meta surface lens is used to reduce the illumination and spill-over losses and improve the overall efficiency of a parabolic antenna when is horn-mounted, and/or top-mounted, and/or deposited directly on the frontal reflector surface of the parabolic antenna. For the horn-mounted model, a meta surface lens is placed in front of or in ...