ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,694, issued on Jan. 13.
"Two probe compact slide screw tuner and method" was invented by Christos Tsironis (Kirkland, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new two-probe slide screw load-pull tuner of which the probes share the same slabline section; they are inserted diametrically at fixed depth facing on opposite sides of the center conductor. The tuner does not have cumbersome adjustable vertical axes controlling the penetration of the probes and its low profile is optimized for on-wafer operations. The carriages holding the probes are moved along the slabline using electric stepper motors or linear actuators. The calibration us...