ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,285, issued on March 24, was assigned to CIG PHOTONICS JAPAN Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Optical transceiver" was invented by Osamu Kagaya (Tokyo) and Hiroyoshi Ishii (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical transceiver includes an attenuation mechanism capable of attenuating the electromagnetic waves in an intermediate space of the interior space. The interior space is continuous in a first direction between the photoelectric device and the optical connector, the interior space being surrounded with a conductive surface from every direction perpendicular to the first direction. The attenuation mechanism is a post str...