US Patent Issued to L3Harris Global Communications on Aug. 26 for "Systems and methods for providing an impedance transformer for a helix antenna" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,127, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to L3Harris Global Communications Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for providing an impedance transformer for a helix antenna" was invented by Qian Li (Pittsford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for improving operations of an antenna element. The methods comprise: coupling an impedance transformer to a ground plane structure of the antenna element (wherein the impedance transformer comprises at least one conductive structure protruding out and away from the ground plane structure in a direction towards a helical structure of the antenna element); adjusting a siz...