ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,291, issued on March 17, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Highly-integrated antenna feed assembly" was invented by Anders Jensen (Johns Creek, Ga.) and John L. Beafore (Buford, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-layer, highly-integrated antenna feed assembly and a method of manufacturing a multi-layer, highly-integrated antenna feed assembly are described herein. The antenna feed assembly includes multiple polarization forming networks operable over different frequency bands. In an example embodiment, the antenna feed assembly includes five layers of conductive material. Alternatively, the number of layers ma...