Patent 7443355 was granted and assigned to KVH Industries, Inc. on October, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A first set of screws secures a Cassegrain-configuration microwave antenna's primary reflector to its low-noise block down-converter without additionally securing that reflector or the low-noise block down-converter to the antenna's feed tube, which a second set of screws separately secures to the low-noise block down-converter.