ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,975, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Patch antenna assembly with parasitic patch and capacitive loading elements" was invented by Nicolas F. Casazzone (Dix Hills, N.Y.) and Charles Burton Swope (Coral Springs, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is an antenna device, comprising a substrate layer and a patch antenna assembly on the substrate layer, configured to contain at least one patch antenna element. Each patch antenna element has a feed insertion cutout and a base cutout, where a feed line extending from a feed point on the substrate layer couples to the antenna e...