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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2018
Applicant:
The Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA (US);
Inventor:
Ian T. McMichael, Stow, MA (US);
Assignee:
The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 1/38 (2006.01); H01Q 9/04 (2006.01); H01Q 1/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 9/0428 (2013.01); H01Q 1/521 (2013.01); H01Q 9/045 (2013.01);
Abstract
A polarization configurable patch antenna including a radiating layer, wherein the radiating layer has a corner truncated rectangular patch shape; and a feed capacitively coupled to the radiating layer for exciting the radiating layer, wherein the radiating layer is rotatable with respect to the feed, and the antenna is configured to generate a right-hand circularly polarized radiation field when the radiating layer is in a first rotational position and a left-hand circularly polarized radiation field when the radiating layer is in a second rotational position.