US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on May 13 for "Photoconductive semiconductor-based stub tuners for high power" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,198, issued on May 13, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Photoconductive semiconductor-based stub tuners for high power" was invented by Tammy Chang (San Ramon, Calif.), Lars F. Voss (Livermore, Calif.) and Joseph D. Schneider (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are apparatuses and methods of tuning a radio frequency circuit using stub tuners and photoconductive switches. In one aspect an electromagnetic stub tuner apparatus is disclosed. the apparatus includes a transmission line, and a photoconductive switch positioned along the length of the transmission line. Th...