ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,101, issued on April 1.
"Load pull tuner for waveguide wafer probe" was invented by Christos Tsironis (Kirkland, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waveguide to wafer-probe adapter includes an integrated computer-controlled load pull tuner forming a compact and handy assembly. The adapter includes a horizontal, a vertical and a sloped straight section, joined with two knee junctions. The tuner is simple and includes two, only along the sloped waveguide section moving at fixed penetration tuning probes without cumbersome vertical axis mechanisms. The sloped cavity section of the waveguide includes niches at the knee junctions, in...