US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army on Oct. 20 for "High gain planar dipole antenna with decade gain-bandwidth" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,029, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"High gain planar dipole antenna with decade gain-bandwidth" was invented by Seth A. McCormick (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a novel dipole antenna design having symmetric poles, each pole having a half circle resonator and an oval resonator that are electrically connected by a straight choke section; the dipole shape permits a wideband dipole response with a transition frequency between a lower and upper frequency band. A cross bar and capacitively-coupled stubs tune at the transi...