ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,816, issued on May 26, was assigned to FUJITSU OPTICAL COMPONENTS Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Optical device and optical module" was invented by Hiromasa Tanaka (Sapporo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes an emitter that emits transmission light with P polarization, a receiver that receives reception light, a transmission port that outputs the transmission light, a reception port that inputs the reception light, and an adjuster that polarizes the reception light received to S polarization. The device includes a filter that outputs the transmission light with P polarization received from the emitter by allowing the tr...