US Patent Issued to Raytheon on July 15 for "Methods and apparatus for phase change detection using a resonator" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,975, issued on July 15, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and apparatus for phase change detection using a resonator" was invented by Gary M. Graceffo (Burke, Va.), Andrew Kowalevicz (Arlington, Va.) and Benjamin P. Dolgin (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a microwave cavity resonator used as a phase change (phase modulation) to intensity change (intensity or amplitude modulation) converter. Certain aspects and embodiments include resonant circuits, such as a resistor, inductor and capacitor (RLC) circuit. Certain aspects and embodiments convert changes in phase to changes in output vo...