US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS on Nov. 11 for "Dual directional asymmetric coupler with a shared through-line" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,959, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS Corp. (Austin, Texas).

"Dual directional asymmetric coupler with a shared through-line" was invented by Justin Regis Magers (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Michael Joseph Seibel (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Marcus Kieling daSilva (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reflectometer may include two directional couplers configured in parallel by being disposed across from each other on opposite sides of a shared section of a signal line. One of the couplers may couple, to a first port of the reflectometer, a portion of the signal power of a first signal flowing from the first end...