US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on Aug. 4 for "Tunable coupler for coupling resonant circuits" (Maryland, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,654, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Tunable coupler for coupling resonant circuits" was invented by David George Ferguson (Takoma Park, Md.), Jeremy Brendon Clark (Washington Township, Ohio) and Micah John Atman Stoutimore (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tunable coupler circuit includes a first transmission line, a second transmission line and a three-junction superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) coupled between the first transmission line and the second transmission line. The three-junction SQUID includes a first Josephson Junction (JJ), a second ...