ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,680, issued on March 31, was assigned to PHASETRUM INC. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Coupler device in phased array system" was invented by Zuo-Min Tsai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Yi-Ting Lin (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Chia-Hsuan Cheng (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a coupler device for use in a phased array system. The coupler device includes a weighting network and a phase matrix network. The weighting network is configured to convert and amplify an input signal to obtain eight intermediate amplified signals. The phase matrix network is coupled to the weighting network, and is configured t...