ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,677, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Wideband directional monopole antenna" was invented by Scott Robert Johnston (St. Louis) and Joseph Allen Norris Jr. (St. Louis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monopole wideband antenna is provided. The monopole wideband antenna comprise a quartic monopole feed element connected to a center feed of a coaxial connector. A Vivaldi ground plane element is connected to a shield end of the coaxial connector, wherein the Vivaldi ground plane element comprises two vanes, each on opposite sides of the shield end of the coaxial connector. The quartic monopole feed elemen...