ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,485, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Probe-fed circularly-polarized stacked center-slotted patch antenna" was invented by Domenic John Belgiovane (Tuscon, Ariz.) and Chad M. Wangsvick (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a stacked patch antenna, an array of stacked patch antennas, and a method of fabricating a stacked patch antenna. The stacked patch antenna comprises a ground plane, a first substrate on the ground plane, a first patch on the first substrate having a first diagonal non-radiating center slot from a side of the first patch, a second substrate on the first ...