ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,845, issued on April 1, was assigned to Parsec Technologies Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Antenna system" was invented by Michael A Neenan (Plano, Texas), Richard Loy Smith Jr. (Dallas) and George Alexander Bednekoff (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-band antenna has a feed point, a grounding location, a first portion for low band operation, a second portion for low band operation, and one or more portions for high band operation. The ground reference of the feed point for the multi-band antenna is connected to a separate object that may provide a base for the multi-band antenna. The feed point of the multi-band antenna ma...