ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,348, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Analog Photonics LLC (Boston).

"Managing control of optical phased arrays with multiple optical source ports" was invented by Michael Robert Watts (Hingham, Mass.), Matthew Byrd (Arlington, Mass.), Christopher Vincent Poulton (Somerville, Mass.) and Benjamin Roy Moss (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Steering light includes: providing, from a plurality of optical source ports, a respective optical wave that is tuned over different respective wavelengths, within different respective time slots; emitting at least a portion of the light from at least one optical phased array comprisin...