US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on April 15 for "CubeSat MIMO antenna with pattern diversity" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,427, issued on April 15, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"CubeSat MIMO antenna with pattern diversity" was invented by Rifaqat Hussain (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A four element folded slot-based multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna for use with CubeSats is described. The MIMO antenna includes a dielectric circuit board, and a metallic layer that covers a top side of the dielectric circuit board and covers a first portion and a second portion of a bottom side. A first meandering slot wraps from the top side, over the first edge and into the firs...