US Patent Issued to PCTEL on July 28 for "Horizontally-polarized omnidirectional antenna with broadband amplitude taper" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,214, issued on July 28, was assigned to PCTEL INC. (Bloomingdale, Ill.).

"Horizontally-polarized omnidirectional antenna with broadband amplitude taper" was invented by Erin Patrick McGough (Seven Hills, Ohio) and Susan F. Tedesco (Richfield, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A horizontally-polarized omnidirectional antenna, including: a body including: a host printed circuit board (PCB) including: a metal-flooded ground plane, windows, and an interconnect providing a radio frequency (RF) signal splitting off into 2*Z0 transmission lines, a plurality of antenna elements, corresponding to respective windows, including: an antenna PC...