ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,970, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami).

"Multiband antenna system" was invented by Elias Antoun Alwan (Miami) and Md Nazim Uddin (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extremely wideband reconfigurable antenna system is provided, including a plurality of planar inverted-F antennas, operating in a frequency range of 0.5 GHz to 4 GHz; a plurality of square patch antennas, operating in a frequency range of 4 GHz to 10 GHz; a plurality of circular patch antennas, operating in a frequency range of 10 GHz to 40 GHz; a plurality of multilayer stacked-up folded antennas, opera...