US Patent Issued to United States of America represented by the Administrator of NASA on Dec. 30 for "Miniaturized polarization-diverse radio-frequency identification (RFID) antenna" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,597, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to United States of America represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington).

"Miniaturized polarization-diverse radio-frequency identification (RFID) antenna" was invented by Patrick Fink (Houston) and Gregory Lin (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio-frequency identification (RFID) antenna, per an implementation, includes a substrate, a metalized pattern, one or more slots, a ground plane, a shorting strip, and one or more feed lines. The metalized pattern has microstrip segments and a lateral microstrip. The slot(s) is situated between the microstrip segments. The ground plane ex...