ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,887, issued on March 24.

"Broadband transition structure with mixed contact and non-contact protrusions" was invented by Tae Hwan Yoo (Incheon, South Korea) and Sung Hwan Kim (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is the broadband transition structure with mixed contact and non-contact protrusions having a first substrate and a second substrate which are adjacent to each other and transmitting a radio wave through a waveguide, in which the first substrate comprises a flat first side, a second side opposite to the first side, a first waveguide provided between the first side and the second side, a third ...