US Patent Issued to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE on April 29 for "Broadband radio frequency imaging surface" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,399, issued on April 29, was assigned to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Columbus, Ohio).

"Broadband radio frequency imaging surface" was invented by Mollie A. Engel (Columbus, Ohio), Douglas A. Thornton (Upper Arlington, Ohio) and Raphael J. Welsh (Powell, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A broadband RF imaging device includes a broadband RF aperture array, at least one RF receiver, and a computer. The at least one RF receiver has short RF connections with the broadband RF aperture array, e.g. length 10 meters or less. The computer has a digital data connection to the at least one RF receiver. Each RF receiver is configured to receiv...