US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama on May 19 for "Coplanar side-fed tightly coupled array with dual-polarization" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,677, issued on May 19, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Ala.).

"Coplanar side-fed tightly coupled array with dual-polarization" was invented by Linfeng Li (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) and Stephen Jie Bang Yan (Northport, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultra-wideband dual-polarized tightly coupled bowtie antenna array for ground-based polar ice sounding radar is described. The antenna array has a very large effective aperture to increase the directivity. At the same time, it is lightweight and low profile to minimize the payload and maximize the survey range. In an implementation, the antenn...