US Patent Issued to Rochester Institute of Technology on June 10 for "Phased circular array of planar omnidirectional radiating elements" (New York, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,925, issued on June 10, was assigned to Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Phased circular array of planar omnidirectional radiating elements" was invented by Connor Devitt (Boothbay, Maine) and Jayanti Venkataraman (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phased circular array of antennas each having an omnidirectional radiation pattern are disposed on an outside surface of a planar sheet conformed to the shape of a cylinder. A plurality of coplanar waveguides includes a ground line and a signal line feeding the antennas is disposed on the outside surface of the cylinder. A signal-carrying feed network el...