US Patent Issued to Raytheon on June 30 for "Method for testing shielding effectiveness of a HEMP/EMI enclosure" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,528, issued on June 30, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Method for testing shielding effectiveness of a HEMP/EMI enclosure" was invented by Ryan William Carley (Hopkinton, Mass.), Michael L. Mcfeeters (Wilmington, Mass.), John B. Rivera-Poventud (Clinton, Mass.) and Travis Klipp (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A HEMP enclosure includes a recessed coaxial connector interface. The connector interface is located at the bottom of a metallic tube in the chassis wall that functions as a waveguide below cutoff (WBC). The WBC attenuates the electromagnetic pulse threat signal to a benign level when the transm...