ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,020, issued on May 12, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Waveguide with a curved-wall low-pass filter" was invented by Syed An Nazmus Saqueb (Westfield, Ind.), Biswadeep Das Gupta (Noblesville, Ind.) and Navid Razi (Wuppertal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waveguide with a curved-wall low-pass filter is described herein. The waveguide comprises a low-pass filter portion configured to allow low-frequency electromagnetic energy therethrough and reject high-frequency electromagnetic energy. The low-pass filter portion comprises an input port, an output port, and a cavity feature that is formed...