US Patent Issued to NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA, CARLETON UNIVERSITY on Oct. 21 for "Waveguide antenna device" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,598, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA (Ottawa) and CARLETON UNIVERSITY (Ottawa).

"Waveguide antenna device" was invented by Daniele Melati (Ottawa), Dan-Xia Xu (Ottawa), Pavel Cheben (Ottawa), Jens H. Schmid (Ottawa), Mohsen Kamandar-Dezfouli (Ottawa), Yuri Grinberg (Ottawa), Ross Cheriton (Ottawa), Siegfried Janz (Ottawa), Winnie N. Ye (Ottawa) and Shahrzad Khajavi (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna device for performing off-chip light coupling comprising an array of radiating elements whose thickness is larger than Lambda/2, the radiating elements being chosen such that the lengt...