ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,277, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ALPHA NETWORKS INC. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Substrate integrated waveguide having multiple substrates" was invented by Yi-Ju Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ding-Bing Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yi-Han Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substrate integrated waveguide having multiple substrate comprises a first substrate and a second substrate stacked with the first substrate, wherein metal layers are formed on opposite sides of the first substrate and opposite sides of the second substrate, a plurality of metal holes are formed between two metal layers of the same substrate to limit transmis...