US Patent Issued to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Method for tuning an electrically small antenna" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,986, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies LLC (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Method for tuning an electrically small antenna" was invented by Kyle J. Byers (Kansas City, Mo.), Louis Brown (Kansas City, Mo.) and Daniel John Salzman (Kansas City, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of tuning an electrically small antenna comprising a radiating element and a support structure comprises applying a force to the support structure to change a shape or a dimension of the radiating element to increase or decrease a frequency at which the electrically small antenna resonates."

The patent was filed o...