ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,440, issued on July 21, was assigned to 1FINITY Inc. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Optical transmit device" was invented by Tomohiro Naganuma (Kawasaki, Japan) and Shoichi Murakami (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical transmit device includes a conversion device configured to convert an electrical data signal into an optical signal, a control unit configured to change an adjustment value for peaking based on a baud rate of the optical signal, and a driver configured to change a band characteristic of the conversion device based on the adjustment value changed by the control unit."

The patent was filed on Sept. 1, 2023, u...