US Patent Issued to ELECTRONIC DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT on April 14 for "Quasi-helical antennas and associated manufacturing methods" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,438, issued on April 14, was assigned to ELECTRONIC DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT CORP. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Quasi-helical antennas and associated manufacturing methods" was invented by Kevin W. Patrick (Tucson, Ariz.) and Sergio E. Cardona Jr. (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dielectric waveguide antenna and manufacturing method, as well as a quasi-helical antenna device. The electrically conducting features within the dielectric waveguide antenna are manufactured using standard printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing technology. Internal elements of the PCB antenna construction may be capacitively coupled or galvanically coup...