ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,639, issued on June 17.
"Low-profile wideband antenna with controlled radiation pattern" was invented by Eduard Levin (Thornhill, Canada), Vladimir Iskiv (Mississauga, Canada), Andrew Schekaturin (Niagara Falls, Canada) and Eugene Rozumovich (Niagara Falls, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extremely broadband compact antenna is provided with a plurality of passive elements mounted evenly spaced is a circular pattern on a grounded electrical conductive round plate. The circular pattern is on a circle concentric and spaced from cylindrical active elements mounted at the center of the plate. A plurality of director elements are ...