US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on June 2 for "Compact helical antenna with plastic support for low frequency RF communication" (Indian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,850, issued on June 2, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Compact helical antenna with plastic support for low frequency RF communication" was invented by Murali Krishna Bezawada (Hyderabad, India), Manasa Chinnam (Sangareddy, India), Piyush Uday Gangwal (Pune, India) and Steven Osborne (Nottingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna apparatus and method of operating the antenna apparatus, can include a helical antenna comprising a helical portion raised from a printed circuit board to optimize gain and bandwidth, wherein the helical portion incorporates a limited number of turns, whi...