ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,691, issued on April 7, was assigned to Advantest Corp. (Tokyo).
"Multi-section directional coupler, a method for manufacturing a multi-section directional coupler and a method for operating a multi-section directional coupler" was invented by Giovanni Bianchi (Ehningen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes a multi-section directional coupler comprising: a plurality of conductive lines, each conductive line comprises a plurality of line sections; a plurality of coupled line sections, each coupled line section comprises a first line section of a first conductive line and a second line section of a second con...