US Patent Issued to Ciena on May 26 for "Fixturing assembly and method for testing, calibrating, and validating high speed radio frequency signals on flexible printed circuits" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,495, issued on May 26, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Fixturing assembly and method for testing, calibrating, and validating high speed radio frequency signals on flexible printed circuits" was invented by Joel Priddle (Kanata, Canada), Dave D'Aoust (Westmeath, Canada), Olivier Thibault-Maheu (Quebec, Canada) and Mathieu Daviault (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixturing assembly and method including and utilizing: a component holder adapted to receive and retain a component including a component flexible printed circuit including component radio frequency electrical signal contacts; a test printed circu...