US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on March 24 for "Spinning directional antenna in centimeter and millimeter wave bands" (Austrian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,897, issued on March 24, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Spinning directional antenna in centimeter and millimeter wave bands" was invented by Andreas Molisch (Los Angeles), Christoph Mecklenbraeuker (Vienna), Thomas Pohl (Vienna), Hussein Hammoud (Los Angeles) and Yuning Zhang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A redirecting rotating mirror arrangement includes a directional antenna subcomponent having a direction of maximum received or transmitted beam intensity. The redirecting rotating mirror arrangement also includes a rotatable mirror that reflects an electromagnetic beam to or from t...