ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,964, issued on March 11, was assigned to Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Bonn, Germany).
"R-mode receiver assembly" was invented by Lars Grundhofer (Horneburg, Germany) and Filippo Rizzi (Neustrelitz, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an R-mode receiver arrangement (1) comprising a low-noise amplifier (2), a bandpass filter (3), and an RTL software-defined radio receiver module (4), wherein an input of the low-noise amplifier (2) is configured to be connectable to a receiving antenna (10, 11), wherein an output of the low-noise amplifier (2) is connected to the RTL software-defined radio...