ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,706, issued on March 31, was assigned to UNIVERSITE SE LIEGE (Liege, Belgium).

"Method for manufacturing a magnetron cavity for atomic clocks" was invented by Thierry Bastin (Ougree, Belgium) and Emeline Van Der Beken (Liege, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-assisted method for the dimensioning of a magnetron cavity for an atomic clock, in particular for a hydrogen maser, the cavity being substantially cylindrical and including at least two curved electrodes disposed along a circular arc and delimiting a substantially cylindrical space of predetermined radius r, the cavity also including a substantially cylindrical ...