ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,662, issued on March 3, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"UWB bandpass filter" was invented by Joerg Schrape (Lippstadt, Germany) and Belal Abu Suheil (Lippstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UWB band pass filter that is formed by a circuit board. The circuit board includes a first dielectric layer made of a dielectric substrate, a filter structure made of electrically conductive material, on a first side of the first dielectric layer, a first ground layer made of electrically conductive material, on a second side of the first dielectric layer. The filter structure has an input terminal and an o...