US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on May 20 for "Dual polarized UHF band cubesat antenna" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,519, issued on May 20, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Dual polarized UHF band cubesat antenna" was invented by Rifaqat Hussain (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah Mohammed Saeed Algarni (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Sharif Iqbal Mitu Sheikh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual feed slot-based circularly polarized wideband ultra high frequency (UHF) antenna for a cubic shaped satellite (Cube-Sat) is described. The UHF antenna includes a circuit board, a metallic layer, a hexagonal meandered slot, a capacitor, a first feed horn, and a second feed horn. The ci...