US Patent Issued to HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS on July 1 for "Low cost, low loss material for microwave or antenna printed circuit board" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,927, issued on July 1, was assigned to HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS LLC.

"Low cost, low loss material for microwave or antenna printed circuit board" was invented by Bingqian Lu (Olney, Md.), Peter Hou (Gaithersburg, Md.), Taiwei Yue (Germantown, Md.), Brian Clough (Germantown, Md.), Harry Johnson (Germantown, Md.) and John Corrigan (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for producing a low loss printed circuit board (PCB). The PCB includes an antenna patch, a ground plane, and a polarizer. The antenna patch consists of a plastic base having a first plurality of circuit patterns formed directly on its top su...