ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,977, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Radiator for terahertz electromagnetic radiation" was invented by Liang Gao (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Chi Hou Chan (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiator for terahertz electromagnetic radiation includes one or more radiator units. Each of the one or more radiator units respectively includes: an oscillator arrangement operable to generate third harmonic power, and a patch antenna arrangement operably coupled with the oscillator arrangement for radiating terahertz electromagnetic radiation based on the generated third harmo...