US Patent Issued to PCTEL on July 14 for "Vertically-polarized omnidirectional antenna with broadband amplitude taper" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,296, issued on July 14, was assigned to PCTEL INC. (Bloomingdale, Ill.).

"Vertically-polarized omnidirectional antenna with broadband amplitude taper" was invented by Erin Patrick McGough (Seven Hills, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertically-polarized omnidirectional antenna, including: a body including: a host printed circuit board (PCB) including: first and second slots, and a metal flooded ground plane, first and second antenna PCBs forming four dipole pairs, the first and second antenna PCBs mounted to the host PCB, respective first to third ground connection fillet tabs, the first and second tabs being on an opposite si...