ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,923, issued on March 4, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Electrically small self-resonant electro-quasistatic exciter and detector with canceled magnetic field" was invented by Darmindra D. Arumugam (Pasadena, Calif.) and Jack D. Bush (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically small electroquasistatic antenna having a structure that reduces radiated magnetic fields and maintains suitable radiated electrical fields. The electroquasistatic antenna is a dipole antenna that is electrically short, which presents as a capacitor for use as an electroquasistatic antenna, with one o...