US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on July 1 for "Giant nonreciprocity of surface acoustic waves enabled by the magnetoelastic interaction" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,914, issued on July 1, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Giant nonreciprocity of surface acoustic waves enabled by the magnetoelastic interaction" was invented by Michael R Page (Powell, Ohio), Piyush J Shah (West Chester, Ohio) and Derek A Bas (Dayton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nonreciprocal microwave transmission device includes a substrate, a transducer on a surface of the substrate and configured to reciprocally convert between electrical signals to acoustic waves, a first piezoelectric material configured to generates and transports...