ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,002, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).
"Dynamic ultra-selective waveguide filter assembly" was invented by Matthew S. Torpey (Ellicott City, Md.), Jordan Stroman (Takoma Park, Md.), Justin A. Parke (Ellicott City, Md.) and Robert S. Howell (Silver Spring, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The dynamic ultra-selective waveguide filter (DUST) assembly includes a stack of a plurality of substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) filters, each of which includes a first and second conductive layers, a dielectric layer disposed between the first and second conductive layers to form a waveguide...