US Patent Issued to Raytheon on April 22 for "N-way coaxial signal injector with axial feeds" (Arizona, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,738, issued on April 22, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"N-way coaxial signal injector with axial feeds" was invented by David D. Crouch (Farragut, Tenn.) and David R. Sar (Marana, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An axially-fed RF power combiner combines a plurality of input signals to generate a single fundamental-mode transverse electromagnetic (TEM) output. The combiner comprises a vacuum coaxial transmission line having a plurality of coaxial vacuum feedthroughs configured to receive the input signals. The feedthroughs are arranged axially around the vacuum coaxial transmission line. An increasing gap is provi...