ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,066, issued on Dec. 2.
"Microwave-initiated antenna igniters with bandwidth selectivity" was invented by Stuart Barkley (Bloomington, Ind.), Travis Sippel (Ames, Iowa) and Justin Lajoie (Ankeny, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a tunable microwave-initiated antenna igniter. The device includes a pair of tunable microstrip antennas on a substrate configured to receive an electromagnetic radiation frequency that provides ignition energy; and a conductive material spanning a dielectric gap between the pair of tunable microstrip antennas. The conductive material spanning the dielectric gap can include a dielectric epoxy or...