ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,708, issued on April 7, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Ultra wideband antenna including radio frequency balun" was invented by Uriel Zvi Odes (Givaat Shmuel, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultra wide band (UWB) antenna is described and includes: a planar portion arranged above and parallel to a ground plane; a ground connecting portion configured to electrically connect the UWB antenna to the ground plane; a tapered portion, the tapered portion extending around at least 40 percent of a periphery of the planar portion and extending perpendicularly from the planar portion toward the ground pla...