US Patent Issued to SPINNER on Aug. 4 for "Flexible high-power RF line with joints" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,691, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SPINNER GMBH (Munich).

"Flexible high-power RF line with joints" was invented by Josef Landinger (Aschau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tiltable RF joint for high power coaxial RF lines includes a first outer conductor with a first inner conductor centered therein and a second outer conductor with a second inner conductor centered therein. The first inner conductor that contains a joint socket is mechanically coupled to a joint ball of the second inner conductor and forms a socket-ball connection. The first inner conductor also contains a center contact surface that is shaped as a sphe...