US Patent Issued to NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY on April 15 for "Augmented logarithmic spiral antenna structure applied to electromagnetic wave energy absorber, thermoelectric energy harvester, photoconductive antenna, array antenna and rectenna" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,530, issued on April 15, was assigned to NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Augmented logarithmic spiral antenna structure applied to electromagnetic wave energy absorber, thermoelectric energy harvester, photoconductive antenna, array antenna and rectenna" was invented by Wei-Chih Wang (Sammamish, Wash.), Prabir Garu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Fiona Marie Wang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented logarithmic spiral antenna structure includes a first conductive layer, a dielectric layer and a second conductive layer. The first conductive layer includes a first spiral arm and a plurality of second spiral arms....