US Patent Issued to Raytheon on May 13 for "Low swap aperture for direction finding across extreme wide band" (Massachusetts, New Jersey, Arizona, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,426, issued on May 13, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Low swap aperture for direction finding across extreme wide band" was invented by Joshua A. Whorf (Marblehead, Mass.), Jacquelyn A. Vitaz (Medford, Mass.), Steven Carson (Washington), Stephen Sekelsky (Princeton, N.J.) and Chad Wangsvick (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wideband direction finding (WBDF) aperture employs a limited number of extreme wideband end-fire antenna elements capable of covering a wide frequency bandwidth. Arranging variable sized antenna elements in a specific pattern, the WBDF aperture enables direction finding capability co...