ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,907, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Antenna, especially UWB antenna, for circularly polarized radio waves" was invented by Belal Abu Suheil (Lippstadt, Germany), Michael Mehn (Ruethen, Germany) and Muhammad Fawad Panhwar (Paderborn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna includes a plate of an electrically insulating material having a first and a second side. In an outer layer on the first side, there is a crescent-shaped first patch of an electrically conductive material having a first edge extending at a first radius and a second edge extending at a second, smaller radius....