US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on April 7 for "RF spectrum analyzer using Rayleigh backscattering" (Virginia, Indiana, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,019, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"RF spectrum analyzer using Rayleigh backscattering" was invented by Matthew J. Murray (Alexandria, Va.), Joseph B. Murray (Ellicott City, Md.), Ross T. Schermer (Fairfax Station, Va.), Jason McKinney (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Brandon F. Redding (University Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus receives a radio frequency ("RF") signal. The apparatus includes a first modulator encoding the RF signal on an optical carrier. The optical carrier includes a plurality of sideb...