ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,312, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Epirus Inc. (Hawthorne, Calif.).

"Frequency and waveform agile microwave devices" was invented by William Griffin Dower (Torrance, Calif.), Jason Reis Chaves (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Alexander Paul Scott (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Harry Bourne Marr Jr. (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Lavanya Govind Rau (Irvine, Calif.) and Jeffery Jay Logan (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of disclosed systems and methods are capable of changing the frequency or other waveform characteristics dynamically based on receiving feedback about the effect of an electromagnetic pulse radiatio...