US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on July 29 for "Ultra-light weight flexible, collapsible and deployable antennas and antenna arrays" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,798, issued on July 29, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Ultra-light weight flexible, collapsible and deployable antennas and antenna arrays" was invented by Mohammed Reza M Hashemi (Pasadena, Calif.) and Seyed Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna includes, in part, first and second flexible boards separated from one another by air/vacuum gap dielectric. The first flexible board includes a radiating patch and a foldable, collapsible, and deployable feed transition. The second flexible board includes a ground layer and a transmission line. The feed transition i...