US Patent Issued to The Florida International University Board of Trustees on May 13 for "Planar tightly coupled arrays and antenna elements thereof" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,894, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami).

"Planar tightly coupled arrays and antenna elements thereof" was invented by Muhammad Hamza (Miami), Stavros Georgakopoulos (Miami) and Constantinos L. Zekios (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ultra-wideband (UWB) arrays that are fully planar are provided. Fully-planar inverted-L element (FILE) arrays that are tightly coupled arrays (TCAs) can realize UWB tightly coupled apertures in the W and higher millimeter wave (mmWave) bands. The unit cell architecture of the FILE array, (which can have any desired size, can be comprised o...