ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,941, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Thales Alena Space Italia S.P.A. Con Unico Socio (Rome).
"Fully-reconfigurable coaxial filter" was invented by Walter Steffe' (Rome).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fully-reconfigurable coaxial filter is provided that includes coaxial resonators mounted such that both opposite ends are coupleable to corresponding tuners, first tuners made of dielectric material, each first tuner being slidably mounted at a first end of a corresponding coaxial resonator to be movable relative to the first end to form a dielectric of a capacitive load, and second tuners made of dielectric material, each second tu...