US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Oct. 21 for "High power MMW synthesizer with truly continuous ultra wide bandwidth tuning range" (Texas, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,669, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"High power MMW synthesizer with truly continuous ultra wide bandwidth tuning range" was invented by Kalin Spariosu (El Segundo, Calif.), Paul T. Hartin (McKinney, Texas) and Michael R. Patrizi (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synthesizer includes a first resonator mirror, a second resonator mirror, and a gain medium disposed within a laser resonator cavity defined by the first resonator mirror and the second resonator mirror. The synthesizer includes a saturable absorber operationally coupled to the gain medium and having active control such t...