ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,900, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Additively manufactured monolithic waveguide transmission line with stepped mode transition" was invented by Alexander D. Johnson (Waltham, Mass.), Jonathan E. Epstein (Acton, Mass.) and Dmytro Volkov (Hudson, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monolithic structure with a stepped mode transition. In an example, the monolithic structure includes a waveguide to coaxial transition structure including (i) one or more walls defining a cavity, and having a first opening at one end of the cavity and a second opening at...