ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,756, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to UNIVERSITE DE LIMOGES (Limoges, France) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris).
"Electromagnetic waveguide" was invented by Fetah Benabid (Le Palais-sur-Vienne, France), Luca Vincetti (Parma, Italy) and Fabio Giovanardi (Modena, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field of waveguides is disclosed. A tubular electromagnetic waveguide includes a hollow central portion defined by a first set of at least seven primary hollow tubes that are distributed annually about the hollow central portion, and a second set of tubes including at least one secondary hollow tube; when there ar...