Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc. has been granted a U.S. patent for its wideband and RFID antenna technology. This eighth patent grant enhances the company’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio and extends it into further areas of application.

According to the firm’s CEO, David Moschella: “This new patent opens up huge opportunities for the application of our proprietary technology into wideband applications, especially in RFID. We see a family of RFID tag options that offer breakthrough capabilities to this market.”

Moschella further added that the firm has waited for the market to catch up with the need for its technology offerings. “Fortunately, the industry has realized that better antenna tags are essential to its success, and we have the technology know-how and patents to deliver.”

The new patent describes novel ways of making wideband antennas and RFID tags with fractals, allowing a versatility of use and form factors not previously achievable. Fractal antennas are based on intricate repeating geometrical shapes. They are very broadband, physically smaller, and can be chosen to work at specific bands. A subset of fractal designs has been shown by the firm’s scientists to be essential to understanding the property of "frequency independence" in Maxwell’s equations, which govern the properties of the electromagnetic spectrum, including radio frequencies. The new patent uses this scientific knowledge as ground rules for invention of new antennas.

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