ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,453, issued on March 25, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Systems and methods for vector-short-open-calibration de-embedding of microwave circuits" was invented by Jackson W. Massey (Austin, Texas), Amir Hajiaboli (Austin, Texas) and Vladimir I. Okhmatovski (Winnipeg, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of de-embedding a feed line is shown. The method includes measuring network parameters of a multilayered planar substrate and obtaining network parameters of a feed line using a short-open-calibration (SOC) according to an ABCD-matrix. An "a" block of the ABCD-matrix includes a first matr...