US Patent Issued to The Boeing on March 17 for "Systems and methods for communicating and sensing through plasma" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,665, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for communicating and sensing through plasma" was invented by Alireza Shapoury (Santa Ana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for communicating through a plasma sheath formed on a vehicle, include a matching layer disposed on at least a portion of a communication device of the vehicle. The matching layer is configured to generate a resonant frequency in relation to the plasma sheath. A modulator is configured to generate one or more electromagnetic waves that modulate the resonant frequency."

The patent was filed ...