US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Feb. 11 for "Method and apparatus for connection and deployment of trailing wire antennas" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,487, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Method and apparatus for connection and deployment of trailing wire antennas" was invented by David Carlos Dawson (Lemon Grove, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trailing wire antenna connector comprising: a spool; a trailing line and a conductive socket. The trailing line is configured to be wound around the spool and consists of a non-conductive line segment joined to a conductive wire segment via a conductive plug. The non-conductive line segment is connected to the spool. The conductive socket is confi...