ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,023, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Cambridge, Mass.), RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (New York) and Wayne State University (Detroit).

"Multi-tone modulated antenna" was invented by Leonardo Matteo Ranzani (Acton, Mass.), Brian Michael Hassick (Bedford, N.H.), Martin Gustafsson (Cambridge, Mass.), Andrea Alu (New York), Dimitrios Sounas (Detroit), Ahmed Mekawy (New York), Paul Xu (New York), Akshaj Arora (New York) and Yoshiaki Kasahara (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna assembly performs a method for operating an electrically small antenna (ESA). The antenna assem...