ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,524, issued on May 20, was assigned to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Columbus, Ohio).

"Conformal/omni-directional differential segmented aperture" was invented by Raphael Joseph Welsh (Powell, Ohio) and Douglas A. Thornton (Upper Arlington, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio frequency (RF) aperture includes an array of electrically conductive tapered projections arranged to define a curved aperture surface, such as a semi-cylinder aperture surface, or a cylinder aperture surface (which may be constructed as two semi-circular aperture surfaces mutually arranged to define the cylinder aperture surface). The RF aperture may furt...