US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Sept. 9 for "Ultra high frequency antenna with variable frequency range" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,989, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Ultra high frequency antenna with variable frequency range" 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 sec...