ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,415, issued on May 13, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).
"Dual-polarized, ridged waveguide magic-t fed, wideband chevron slot pair antenna element for direction finding applications" was invented by Jean L. Kubwimana (Merrimack, N.H.), Nicholas C. Denno (Nashua, N.H.) and Luke D. St. Martin (Lunenburg, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna element suited for direction finding (DF) with omni-directional radiation patterns utilizing a pair of chevron slots fed using a ridged waveguide magic tee (magic-t) and connected microstrip probes. The provided antenna element...