ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,937, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Additively manufactured modular aperture antenna with shared shorting post" was invented by Jean L. Kubwimana (Merrimack, N.H.), Jacob Tamasy (Nashua, N.H.) and Alexander D. Johnson (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna assembly includes an antenna feed, a ground plane, a first antenna element, a second antenna element, and a shorting post that is shared between the first and second antenna elements. The first antenna element includes a first conductive dipole arm in planar alignment with a surf...