ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,231, issued on June 30, was assigned to EFFECT PHOTONICS B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Opto-electronic system and method" was invented by Sian Chong Jeffrey Lee (Kempen, Germany), Aaron Albores-Mejia (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Emil Kleijn (Son en Breugel, Netherlands) and Erwin Mathijn Van Vliet (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An opto-electronic system including a PIC that includes a semiconductor-based tunable laser source that can achieve single-mode lasing thereby emitting optical radiation having a predefined linewidth at a predefined operating wavelength. The PIC also includes an optical measurement unit ...