US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on July 28 for "Wideband dual-mode antenna" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,202, issued on July 28, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Wideband dual-mode antenna" was invented by Satish Kumar Sharma (San Diego) and Jia-Chi Samuel Chieh (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wideband dual-mode antenna comprising: a dielectric substrate; a conductive layer disposed on a first face of the dielectric substrate; two tapered slots separated from each other by a linear center conductor formed in the conductive layer, wherein the tapered slots narrow to slot-lines terminated by respective baluns at a feed end of the wideband dual-mode antenna; and...