US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on Sept. 30 for "Frequency tunable piezoelectric VLF antenna" (Connecticut, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,614, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Frequency tunable piezoelectric VLF antenna" was invented by Gurkan Gok (Milford, Conn.), Joseph Zacchio (Wethersfield, Conn.), Jeffrey Box (Farmersville, Texas) and Kenneth Keese (Lavon, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Piezoelectric antennas may include a tuning mechanism. The tuning mechanism may adjust the operation frequency of the antennas and compensate the frequency drifts due to environmental effects on the piezoelectric materials and the other potential circuitry. The tuning mechanism may also modulate signal for communication purpose...