ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,282, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Finisar Shanghai Incorporation (Shanghai).

"Optical design with integrated photonics" was invented by Li Zhang (Shanghai), Minghui Jia (Shanghai), Hui Wang (Shanghai), Liangpeng Guan (Shanghai) and Shanshan Zeng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical assembly includes a number of laser integrated circuits operative for outputting a like number of optical or laser signals. A lightwave circuit is positioned to receive the optical or laser signals and is operative to phase shift the optical or laser signals, combine the phase shifted optical or laser signals, and output the phase shif...