ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,701, issued on May 26, was assigned to Smiths Interconnect Americas Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Systems and methods for frequency equalization and temperature compensation in radio frequency devices" was invented by Moamer Hasanovic (Palm City, Fla.) and Conrad William Jordan (Stuart, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frequency equalizer is provided. The frequency equalizer includes a coupler including a main segment extending between a first port and a second port and a coupled segment disposed in a coupling relationship with the main segment and extending between a third port and a fourth port. The frequency equalizer further incl...