US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on June 2 for "UWB Vivaldi array antenna" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,860, issued on June 2, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"UWB Vivaldi array antenna" was invented by Jeffrey P. Massman (Centerville, Ohio) and Carl Pfeiffer (Beavercreek, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are directed to systems, apparatus and methods providing an ultra-wide band (UWB) antenna configured to conform to a doubly curved surface and having an operating wavelength Lambda, the UWB antenna comprising: an array of electrically cooperating antennas emanating outward from a base region to respective locations of an outer...