ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,007, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Lisa Draxlmaier GmbH (Vilsbiburg, Germany).

"Hybrid coupler with dielectric substrate and waveguide transition" was invented by Rashad Elmasry (Altdorf, Germany) and Thomas Merk (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid coupler for transmitting equally splitted amplitude and quadrature phase electro-magnetic waves, the hybrid coupler includes a dielectric substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface opposing the first main surface and a stripline placed at the first main surface of the dielectric substrate. The stripline comprising an input port and two outp...