US Patent Issued to VIASAT on Sept. 22 for "Antenna array with independent RFIC chip and antenna element lattice geometries" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,332, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to VIASAT INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Antenna array with independent RFIC chip and antenna element lattice geometries" was invented by Steven Franson (Carlsbad, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna apparatus includes a first component layer having a plurality of RFICs arranged in a first lattice geometry (e.g., rectangular), where each RFIC comprises beamforming circuitry. A second, parallel component layer overlays the first component layer and includes a plurality of antenna elements arranged in a second, different lattice geometry (e.g., triangular). The antenna elements have respec...