ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,411, issued on July 7, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Antenna array feed network" was invented by John Meloling (San Diego), David Hurdsman (San Diego), Jacob Rissmiller (San Diego) and Aldo Monges (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna array feed network includes two or more antenna elements, a 180deg hybrid coupler, one or more combiners, two or more transceiver systems including a secondary transceiver system with a transceiver, a diplexer, and amplifier with each remaining transceiver system including a transceiver, a diplexer, a directional coupler...