ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,968, issued on July 21, was assigned to KYOCERA AVX Components Corp. (Fountain Inn, S.C.).
"Compact thin-film surface mountable coupler" was invented by Michael Marek (Jerusalem), Elinor O'Neill (Mevaseret Zion, Israel), Arie Leonid Talalaevsky (Jerusalem) and Nahum Bohmstein (Modi-n-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface mountable thin-film coupler may include a monolithic base substrate and a plurality of ports formed over the monolithic base substrate. The surface mountable thin-film coupler may include at least one thin-film component connected with at least one port of the plurality of ports. The surface...