ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,405, issued on Aug. 5.
"Load pull tuning probe with adjustable notch" was invented by Christos Tsironis (Kirkland, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adjustable combination tuning probes for slide screw load pull tuners allow larger frequency coverage Fmax/Fmin and higher VSWR beyond the capacity of existing tuning probes. This is done by combining two equally or unequally long tuning slugs, a fixed slug and a mobile slug into a combination probe assembly being mounted in the same mobile tuner carriage. The mobile slug slides on a top bar and is lockable at adjustable distance from the fixed slug. The distance (gap) is adjustable b...