US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on June 2 for "Antenna system with quality-factor modulation" (Wisconsin, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,847, issued on June 2, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Antenna system with quality-factor modulation" was invented by Daniel Ludois (Middleton, Wis.), Nader Behdad (Oregon, Wis.), Marisa Liben (Westminster, Colo.) and Mirhamed Mirmozafari (Waunakee, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically small antenna system modulates the Q factor of the antenna during electrical transmission to decrease the Q factor during signal transitions between frequency states thereby affecting an improved trade-off between antenna bandwidth and operating efficiency."

The patent was filed on Sept. 14, 2023, u...