ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,911, issued on April 14, was assigned to ElectroPhotonic-IC Inc. (Kanata, Canada).

"Methods and systems for high-speed optical applications, and the design of a corresponding receiver and transmitter" was invented by Lawrence E. Tarof (Kanata, Canada), Vighen Pacradouni (Montreal), Joshua Baxter (Kanata, Canada), Dhiraj Kumar (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Eric Cauchon (Ottawa) and Anton Menshov (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispersion compensation structure for use in an optical network to compensate for transmission-based dispersion of a light signal, wherein the dispersion compensation structure comprises an array of dispe...