ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,042, issued on June 2, was assigned to Formerica OptoElectronics Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Pluggable optoelectronic transceiver" was invented by Peter Sin-Te Liu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Joseph Chen-Kwo Liu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Hung-Fu Yeh (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Chih-Chun Chiang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This is a type of pluggable optoelectronic transceiver that operates while immersed in cooling fluid for data transmission. The pluggable optoelectronic transceiver consists of an optical module, fluid separating colloid, and colloid separating cover. The fluid separating colloid serves t...