US Patent Issued to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Feb. 17 for "Double-section, low-profile, low-observable, wide-band, azimuthally-omni-directional monopole antenna" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,895, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Double-section, low-profile, low-observable, wide-band, azimuthally-omni-directional monopole antenna" was invented by David Walker Brock (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-profile antenna comprising upper and lower sets of conductive arms capacitively loaded by upper and lower conductive rings respectively connected to distal ends of the upper and lower sets of conductive arms. The upper and lower conductive arms have edges that conform to prolate ellipsoid dome shapes that each have a major axis ...