ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,362, issued on March 25, was assigned to Airbus Defence and Space GmbH (Taufkirchen, Germany).

"Internal conductor device for a waveguide radiator" was invented by Oliver Stauss (Immenstaad, Germany), Michael Korn (Immenstaad, Germany), Alexander Herschlein (Immenstaad, Germany), Hendrik Bayer (Immenstaad, Germany) and Catherine Haas (Immenstaad, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal conductor device for a waveguide radiator, in particular for a waveguide radiator has at least one slotted waveguide, at least one support rail, at least one dielectric unit that is arranged on the at least one support rail and comprises at...