US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 5 for "Photodetector with split inputs" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,120, issued on May 5, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Photodetector with split inputs" was invented by Rajat Sharma (Pasadena, Calif.), Donald B. Adams (San Jose, Calif.), Attila Mekis (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Gianlorenzo Masini (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes photodetectors with multiple inputs and methods of operating photodetectors with multiple inputs. An apparatus includes a substrate, an optical absorber, an optical device, and a tuner. The optical absorber is positioned on the substrate. The optical device produces a first optical signal and a second opti...