ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,817, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Omnifi Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).
"Conformal and flexible leaky-wave antenna arrays with reduced mutual couplings" was invented by Tomi Murto (Ottawa), Joseph Alan Epstein (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Shulabh Gupta (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for an antenna system capable of optimal broadside radiation. In certain embodiments, a system may include a flexible and thin polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate stack having a predetermined length. The system may include a printed circuit board (PCB) fabrication of one or more Leaky-Wave Antenna (LWA) struc...