ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,459, issued on April 21, was assigned to Heriot-Watt University (Riccarton, Great Britain).

"Waveguide antenna" was invented by Samuel Rotenberg (Riccarton, Great Britain), Lei Wang (Riccarton, Great Britain), Brian Collins (Riccarton, Great Britain), Pascual Hilario (Riccarton, Great Britain) and Carolina Mateo-Segura (Riccarton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio-frequency antenna comprises a radiating element comprising a plurality n of D-shaped arms, each extending in a respective radial direction relative to a centre of the radiating element and substantially equally spaced around the centre, such that the rad...