ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,635, issued on June 24, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).
"System for generating at least one radio frequency signal phase-locked to a reference signal, corresponding radio frequency transmitter and receiver" was invented by Baudouin Martineau (Grenoble, France) and Dominique Morche (Grenoble, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating a radio frequency signal phase-locked to a reference signal. Such a system includes a rotary travelling wave oscillator including a conductive ring and a plurality of sustaining amplifying cells electrically connected to the ring;...