ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,890, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Aircraft antenna" was invented by Matthijs Plokker (Hamburg, Germany), Sebastian Wicher (Hamburg, Germany) and Michael Karwin (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft antenna (101) including a radome (102) wherein the radome (102) has a main body (105) shaped to enclose one or more antennae (107) when the antenna (101) is attached to a fuselage skin portion (103), wherein the main body (105) includes a front surface portion (203), a rear surface portion (401), adjacent side surface portions (205,207), and an upper surface portion (...