ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,814, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ElectroPhotonic-IC Inc. (Kanata, Canada).

"Differential electro-absorption modulator systems" was invented by Francois Tremblay (Gatineau, Canada) and Steven Porter (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro-photonic integrated circuit comprising: an electro-absorption modulator (EAM); and a signal driver and bias circuit; wherein the EAM comprises a first EAM portion configured for generating a first modulated optical output signal from an optical input signal; and a second EAM portion configured to be optically coupled to the first EAM portion and configured to receive the first modulate...