US Patent Issued to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) on June 16 for "Microwave or millimeter wave passive components or devices" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,545, issued on June 16, was assigned to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Microwave or millimeter wave passive components or devices" was invented by Romain Fleury (Denges, Switzerland) and Maliheh Khatibi Moghaddam (Crissier, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a waveguide power divider with a high-pass filtering function, and solves the problems of overlarge length dimension and incapability of placement in a narrow space after a conventional waveguide power divider is connected with a waveguide high-pass filter in a cascading manner. An upward input waveguide p...