Intellectual Property Law

US Patent 7899301 - CNT antenna array

This patent from inventor Robert Crowley has early priority (1997) and includes basic claims to nanotubes in antennas devices or otherwise used to modify electromagnetic energy. Claims 1 and 8 read:

1. A nanotube device comprising:

a substrate for supporting an aligned array of electromagnetic energy modifying nanotubes thereon;

an array of electromagnetic energy modifying nanotubes on said substrate arranged for the receipt and modification of electromagnetic radiation.

8. A first nanotube arranged to receive and modify electromagnetic energy applied thereto.

Full post as published by TinytechIP on March 07, 2011 (boomark / email).