US Patent Issued to VIASAT on July 15 for "Integrated antenna array and beamformer IC chips with inter-stage amplification" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,477, issued on July 15, was assigned to VIASAT INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Integrated antenna array and beamformer IC chips with inter-stage amplification" was invented by Steven J. Franson (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna apparatus includes a first component layer having a plurality of antenna elements forming an antenna array. A second component layer includes: (i) a plurality of RFICs coupled to the antenna elements, where each RFIC has active beamforming circuitry to adjust signals communicated with one or more of the antenna elements, and a portion of a first stage of a beamforming network (BFN); and (i...