US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army on Aug. 5 for "Ultrawide-band dual polarization three-dimensional tapered aperture Vivaldi antenna" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,330, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Ultrawide-band dual polarization three-dimensional tapered aperture Vivaldi antenna" was invented by Amir I. Zaghloul (Bethesda, Md.), Quang M. Nguyen (Odenton, Md.), Theodore K. Anthony (Randallstown, Md.) and Gregory A. Mitchell (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "We disclose an ultrawide-band (USB) dual polarization three-dimensional (3D) tapered aperture Vivaldi antenna. It is generally comprised of a radiator having two pairs of tapering arms, each pair corresponding to a different polarization ...