US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA on April 14 for "Astronomy receiver" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,693, issued on April 14, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington).

"Astronomy receiver" was invented by Berhanu T. Bulcha (Greenbelt, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waveguide receiver apparatus includes a power splitter circuit with an attenuation card; a mixer circuit coupled to an output of the power splitter circuit; and an antenna assembly coupled to an output of the mixer circuit. The aspects of the disclosed embodiments provide a highly compact and sensitive 500-600 GHz, 1x8 receiver array, with a conversion loss of less than approximately 11 decibels (dB), a noise...