ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,720, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Anhui Agricultural University (Hefei, China).

"Tokamak outer antenna" was invented by Yaoyao Wang (Hefei, China), Qing Zhou (Hefei, China), Zhenxing Wang (Hefei, China), Chengzhou Liu (Hefei, China), Liang Zhu (Hefei, China), Wendong Ma (Hefei, China) and Jiafang Shan (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a Tokamak outer antenna, comprising feed waveguides, brims, sub-waveguides and a metal base. The metal base is in a W shape, both ends of the metal base are connected to the lower surfaces of feed waveguides, respectively. Opposite sides of two feed waveguides are connected...