US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Jan. 13 for "In-band full-duplex antenna with direction finding capability" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,731, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"In-band full-duplex antenna with direction finding capability" was invented by Kenneth E. Kolodziej (Lexington, Mass.), David M. Bragdon (Lexington, Mass.), Pierre A. Dufilie (Marlborough, Mass.), William F. Moulder (Nashua, N.H.) and Bradley Thomas Perry (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is an in-band full-duplex (IBFD) antenna having direction finding capability. The IBFD antenna includes a transmit antenna having an omnidirectional radiation pattern and a receive antenna configured to provide a plurality of diffe...