US Patent Issued to Enig Associates on Jan. 20 for "Compact charged particle beam plasma multi-frequency antenna" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,327, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Enig Associates Inc. (Rockville, Md.).

"Compact charged particle beam plasma multi-frequency antenna" was invented by Yil-Bong Kim (Silver Spring, Md.) and Eric N. Enig (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact transmitting antenna includes a vacuum tube, a charged particle beam gun, a beam timing controller, and a beam speed controller. The charged particle beam gun is positioned for producing a beam of finite length of electrons or ions within the vacuum tube that moves within the vacuum tube at a controlled speed to generate an electromagnetic wave. The beam timing controller i...