US Patent Issued to Fujikura, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on May 20 for "Splitter-combiner and cascade connection circuit" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,506, issued on May 20, was assigned to Fujikura Ltd. (Tokyo) and INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Tokyo).

"Splitter-combiner and cascade connection circuit" was invented by Yusuke Uemichi (Sakura, Japan), Bodhisatwa Sadhu (Peekskill, N.Y.) and Jean-Olivier Plouchart (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A splitter-combiner includes a first quarter-wave line, a second quarter-wave line, an absorption resistance, a combining terminal, and a line bending circuit. The line bending circuit includes a line parallel region and a line bending region. The line parallel region has the first quarter-wave line and the second quarter-wav...