ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,296, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Waveguide interface for coupling a waveguide to a microwave conductor on a PCB and including a backshort dielectric being the same as a dielectric of the PCB" was invented by Goran Snygg (Partille, Sweden) and Martin Fagerstrom (Bollebygd, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a waveguide interface arrangement for electrically connecting a waveguide device to a microwave conductor that runs in a metallization on one main side of a printed circuit board, PCB, comprising a PCB dielectric layer, a first PCB main side with a first P...