ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,325, issued on Dec. 16.

"Waveguide tuner with signal coupler-divider" was invented by Christos Tsironis (Kirkland, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Low loss high directivity signal coupler-dividers use two additional waveguide sections coupled using traversing holes with a main waveguide section, which carries a longitudinal slot, into which a metallic tuning probe is inserted and precisely positioned. The coupler-divider allows vector load pull and sampling a portion of the signal to amplify and inject back through the tuner section to create a compact hybrid tuner for sub-THz tuning frequencies."

The patent was filed on Oct. ...