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Patents

14 inventions, 20 publications, all antennas, all at Taoglas.

These are the ones with my name on them as inventor. They were filed while I was running engineering at Taoglas, where we were doing roughly one to two filings a month across the team, so this is my slice of that rather than the whole of it.

Note the count. There are 20 published documents here and 14 actual inventions. The same idea filed in the US, France and Germany produces three publications and one invention, and I would rather say 14 than claim 20.

They fall into three groups.

POINTING AND STEERING

The largest group. Getting a directional antenna aimed at the right thing, and keeping it there, without a human on a ladder with a signal meter.

Devices, systems and methods for aiming directional antennas

Systems and devices to control antenna azimuth orientation

Steering systems and methods

US10116049B2 · granted 2018

Directional antenna with signal strength feedback and methods

US11688940B2 · granted 2023

Directional antenna arrays and methods

US11594812B2 · granted 2023

Pre-phased antenna arrays, systems and methods

PUTTING AN ANTENNA WHERE THERE ISN'T ROOM FOR ONE

Vehicles and enclosures are hostile to antennas. Metal everywhere, no volume, and somebody else owns the industrial design.

Antenna systems and methods for incorporating into a body panel

US10403968B2 · DE102017002994A1 · granted 2019

In-glass high performance antenna

EP3654448B1 · granted 2024

Capacitive interposer for metal slot antenna and methods

Integrated antenna mounting

ANTENNA CONSTRUCTION

Multi-band MIMO panel antennas

US11811135B2 granted 2023 · US20250253524A1 2025

Patch antenna construction

Fin-type antenna assemblies

Antenna (design patent)

USD815621S1 · granted 2018

One of these is still going. A continuation on the multi-band MIMO panel work published in August 2025, years after I left Taoglas. That is normal for a patent family, and it is worth knowing if you are counting, because the number is not final.