US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA on March 4 for "Circularly polarized solderless antenna with frequency-scalable circuit" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,079, issued on March 4, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington).

"Circularly polarized solderless antenna with frequency-scalable circuit" was invented by Justin Long (Greenbelt, Md.), Victor Marrero-Fontanez (Greenbelt, Md.), Wei-Chung Huang (College Park, Md.) and Cornelis Du Toit (Ellicott City, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solderless antenna includes a pair of spaced-apart electrically-conductive disks arranged in a vertical stack and a self-supporting, branched-path feed circuit. The feed circuit has a signal-receiving point and four signal paths leading to four e...