US Patent Issued to FIRST RF on May 12 for "Patch antenna element with reactive areal loading" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,053, issued on May 12, was assigned to FIRST RF Corp. (Boulder, Colo.).

"Patch antenna element with reactive areal loading" was invented by Dean Paschen (Superior, Colo.) and Lars Grimsrud (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patch antenna element has a plurality of patches that are coplanar, each having a length along a resonant dimension that is no greater than one-quarter of a wavelength of a maximum operating frequency of the patch antenna element. The antenna element also includes one or more discrete reactive elements. For each pair of neighboring patches of the plurality of patches, the pair forms an electrically...