ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,347, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FUJITSU OPTICAL COMPONENTS Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Optical device, optical transceiving device, and optical transceiver" was invented by Nobuaki Mitamura (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes a substrate having an optical waveguide formed on a substrate surface, a buffer layer that is laminated on the optical waveguide, an electrode that is formed on the buffer layer, an insulating layer that covers the electrode, and an adhesion layer that is formed between the electrode and the insulating layer."

The patent was filed on Dec. 22, 2023, under Application No...