US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM on Aug. 25 for "Metamaterial-enabled beam scanning antenna" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,174, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Birmingham, Great Britain).

"Metamaterial-enabled beam scanning antenna" was invented by Muhammad S Rabbani (Birmingham, Great Britain), James Churm (Birmingham, Great Britain) and Alexandros Feresidis (Birmingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a leaky-wave antenna device comprising a first metasurface comprising a first dielectric substrate having a first array of conductive elements and a second metasurface comprising a second dielectric substrate having a second array of conductive elements. The antenna device further comprises ...