ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,419, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Communication systems and methods" was invented by Zhensheng Jia (Superior, Colo.), Luis Alberto Campos (Superior, Colo.) and Curtis Dean Knittle (Superior, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection locked transmitter for an optical communication network includes a master seed laser source input substantially confined to a single longitudinal mode, an input data stream, and a laser injected modulator including at least one slave laser having a resonator frequency that is injection locked to a frequency of the single longitudinal m...