US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation on Aug. 5 for "Magnetoelectric nanowire based antennas" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,332, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Magnetoelectric nanowire based antennas" was invented by Jennifer S. Andrew (Gainesville, Fla.), Matthew Bauer (Gainesville, Fla.) and David P. Arnold (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure integrate magnetoelectric nanowire arrays within antenna assemblies to form ultra-compact antennas. An exemplary method comprises using a dielectrophoretic force to orient a magnetoelectric nanowire across an electrode gap separating a pair of electrodes; and transmitting or receiving electroma...