US Patent Issued to Metamagnetics on Feb. 18 for "Frequency selective limiter having reduced spike leakage" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,128, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Metamagnetics Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Frequency selective limiter having reduced spike leakage" was invented by Scott M. Gillette (Norfolk, Mass.) and Mahima Shukla (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a frequency selective limiter (FSL) module comprising a cascade of an FSL and a functional limiter (e.g. a conventional semiconductor limiter comprising a PIN diode) with steady state limiting and power threshold values selected such the FSL module provides suppression of a spike leakage power and while still enabling frequency selective limiting."

The patent was f...