US Patent Issued to CORNELL UNIVERSITY on Aug. 26 for "Tunable resonator" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,337, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Tunable resonator" was invented by Thomas P. Tapen (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Alyssa B. Apsel (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods herein provide for a tunable resonator. In one embodiment, a tunable resonator includes a transmission line comprising at least two inductor segments and a tap between each of the at least two inductor segments. The resonator also includes one less switch than a number of the at least two inductor segments on the transmission line. Each switch is coupled to one of the taps. And, each switch is operable to decou...