US 11,722,592 B2
Wearable antenna system
Jennifer Pinkos, Hanover, MD (US); Keren Espina, Randallstown, MD (US); James A Turney, Silver Spring, MD (US); Sriram Manivannan, Baltimore, MD (US); Sandy Spence, Westminster, MD (US); Dan Scheffer, Scheffer, MD (US); and John Lettow, Washington, DC (US)
Filed by Vorbeck Materials Corp., Jessup, MD (US)
Filed on Feb. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/591,559.
Application 17/591,559 is a continuation of application No. 16/925,581, filed on Jul. 10, 2020, granted, now 11,265,410.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/144,590, filed on Feb. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/013,599, filed on Apr. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0256022 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. H01Q 1/36 (2006.01); H04B 1/3827 (2015.01); H01Q 1/27 (2006.01); A41D 1/00 (2018.01); H04M 1/05 (2006.01); A41D 31/08 (2019.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04M 1/05 (2013.01) [A41D 1/002 (2013.01); A41D 31/08 (2019.02); H01Q 1/273 (2013.01); H01Q 1/368 (2013.01); H04B 1/385 (2013.01); H04B 2001/3855 (2013.01); H04W 84/04 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Communications suspenders, comprising:
a first strap;
a second strap;
a third strap;
an intermediate portion comprising a top end and a bottom end;
wherein
each of the first strap, the second strap, and the third strap comprise a first end and a second end;
the first end of the first strap is coupled to the top end;
the first end of the second strap is coupled to the top end proximate to the first end of the first strap;
the first end of the third strap is coupled to the bottom end;
at least one of the first strap, the second strap, the third strap, and the intermediate portion comprises an antenna element affixed thereto;
the first strap or the second strap comprise a communications hub affixed thereto and comprising an antenna port;
the antenna port conductively and demountably couples to a portable radio;
the antenna port is conductively coupled to the antenna element and thereby allows the portable radio to communicate via the antenna element;
the second end of each of the first strap, the second strap, and the third strap comprises a demountable fastener that is configured to demountably couple to a pair of trousers;
the communications suspenders are configured to be worn on shoulders;
the antenna element comprises a conductive composition;
the conductive composition comprises a polymer and fully exfoliated single sheets of graphene; and
the graphene sheets are present in the polymer as a three-dimensional percolated network.