ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,275, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Lisa Draxlmaier GmbH (Vilsbiburg, Germany).
"Thermal isolator for microwave components with waveguide flanges" was invented by Ievgen Bilogurov (Sindelfingen, Germany) and Thomas Merk (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waveguide spacer for thermally decoupling a first flange member from a second flange member of a waveguide structure for guiding high frequency radio waves, the waveguide spacer includes a band-gap layer composed of a dielectric substrate and a plurality of electrically conductive contacts inserted into the substrate. The substrate has a waveguide hole connectin...