US Patent Issued on Sept. 15 for "System and method for efficiently generating electromagnetic waves with reduced velocities" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,620, issued on Sept. 15.

"System and method for efficiently generating electromagnetic waves with reduced velocities" was invented by Weimin Lu (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for efficiently generating a tailored electromagnetic (EM) wave having a lower velocity than the speed of electromagnetic waves in free space includes a parallel-plate waveguide which extends linearly and a sinewave current generator. The parallel-plate waveguide includes a ground plate and a tailored transmitting antenna plate disposed in parallel and spaced apart. The ground plate is formed of a first conductor. The tailored transmitting...