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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2006
Applicants:
Thomas Weller, Lutz, FL (US);
Jeff Frolik, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Inventors:
Thomas Weller, Lutz, FL (US);
Jeff Frolik, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Assignees:
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (US);
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/185 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention is a new device that will improve the radio link quality for low power wireless devices. An example application is for low power, miniaturized wireless sensor nodes that are statically deployed in a slowly varying environment or that have limited mobility. The device is a reconfigurable antenna that is novel in that it operates with very low (zero-order) energy in contrast to existing system that required both significant computational and DC power.