ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,679, issued on July 7, was assigned to Aloe Semiconductor Inc. (Middletown, N.J.).

"Electronic demultiplexing for dual-polarization (DP) intensity-modulated direct detection (IMDD) optical communication systems" was invented by Christopher R. Doerr (Middletown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-polarization (DP) intensity-modulated direct detection (IMDD) receiver includes an input port configured to receive input light; an optical polarization splitter configured to split the input light into a pair of optical transmission paths; a pair of photodetectors including (i) a first photodetector configured to detect light at a fir...