ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,299, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optical system with offloaded optical components" was invented by Vipulkumar K. Patel (Breinigsville, Pa.), Romesh Kumar Nandwana (Breinigsville, Pa.), Norbert Schlepple (Macungie, Pa.), Eng Wen Ong (Breinigsville, Pa.) and Prakash B. Gothoskar (Allentown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes an optical system and method of operating the optical system. The optical system includes a substrate and first and second photonic integrated circuits. The first photonic integrated circuit is positioned on the substrate. The second...