US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on May 5 for "Conformal digital dismount antenna" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,055, issued on May 5, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Conformal digital dismount antenna" was invented by Scott R. Burnside (McClellan, Calif.) and Thomas J. Roush (Carmichael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conforming dismount antenna for use in a communication system includes a signal converter, a modulation component, a flexible fiber optic cable, and a flexible radiating element. The flexible fiber optic cable connects the conforming dismount antenna to a radio transceiver. The conforming dismount antenna bends to the contours of the user wearing the conforming dismount antenna or confo...