US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITAT PADERBORN on April 22 for "Adjustable signal source with low phase noise" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,939, issued on April 22, was assigned to UNIVERSITAT PADERBORN (Paderborn, Germany).

"Adjustable signal source with low phase noise" was invented by Meysam Bahmanian (Bochum, Germany) and Johannes Christoph Scheytt (Dorsten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an adjustable signal source with low phase noise, comprising: an optical-microwave phase detector (BOMPD) which comprises: an intensity modulator (BIM) having an optical signal input, a modulation input (1), a first output (O1), and a second output (O2), a first photodiode (PD1) which can be irradiated by light from the first output (O1) during operat...