US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on Jan. 20 for "Oscillator integrated piezoelectric radiator" (Connecticut, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,330, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Oscillator integrated piezoelectric radiator" was invented by Gurkan Gok (Milford, Conn.), Joseph Zacchio (Wethersfield, Conn.), Jeffrey Box (Farmersville, Texas) and Kenneth Keese (Lavon, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Piezoelectric materials, particularly ones with high quality factor used for mechanical antenna implementations, are sensitive to environmental conditions including temperature swings, humidity, vibration. Under the varying environmental conditions, the resonant frequency of the piezoelectric antenna can drift, and this results ...