US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on June 2 for "Arraying architecture of piezoelectric RF radiators" (Connecticut, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,848, issued on June 2, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Arraying architecture of piezoelectric RF radiators" 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: "Single element piezoelectric antennas may be efficient but low power radiators. Single element piezoelectric antennas are limited by the mechanical strength of the piezoelectric material. In other words, the element can only be driven to a point until the element breaks. Even at this limit, the radiated power levels of the ...