US Patent Issued to THALES, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX, INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE BORDEAUX, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE on July 15 for "Elementary antenna of the slot-fed patch type and active array antenna" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,487, issued on July 15, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France), UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX (Bordeaux, France), INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE BORDEAUX (Talence, France) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris).

"Elementary antenna of the slot-fed patch type and active array antenna" was invented by TimotheE Le Gall (Elancourt, France), Anthony Ghiotto (Talence, France), GwenaeL Morvan (Elancourt, France), Stefan Varault (Trappes, France), Bruno Louis (Trappes, France) and Gregoire Pillet (Trappes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The elementary antenna 1 includes: two cross-shaped slots 32, 33 defining four half-slot...