ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,292, issued on March 17, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit) and The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio).
"Embedded coplanar waveguides for thin-film material characterization and methods related to the same" was invented by Alebel H. Arage (Lake Orion, Mich.), Kubilay Sertel (Hilliard, Ohio), Niru K. Nahar (Hilliard, Ohio), Yagmur Ozturk (Columbus, Ohio) and Maruf Md. Sajjad Hossain (Columbus, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thin-film material measurement and characterization fixture system using an embedded coplanar waveguide fixture including a substrate layer, an upper conductor layer disposed ...