ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,722, issued on June 30, was assigned to ElectroPhotonic-IC Inc. (Kanata, Canada).

"Electro-absorption modulator and monolithic electro-photonic integrated circuit comprising an electro-absorption modulator and driver electronics" was invented by Lawrence E. Tarof (Kanata, Canada), Vighen Pacradouni (Montreal), Kirill Pimenov (Orleans, Canada), Yury Logvin (Kanata, Canada), Dhiraj Kumar (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Francois Tremblay (Gatineau, Canada) and Richard D. Clayton (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro-optic device comprising a waveguide (WG)-device configured as an electro-absorption modulator (EAM) and electronics c...