ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,475, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Independent channel control in coherent optics" was invented by Raghavasandeep Maram (Bangalore, India), Tapan Kumar Chauhan (Bangalore, India), B.V. Srinivasamurthy (Bangalore, India) and Shanmuga Priya Marimuthu (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical communication device includes a first data interface providing a first channel and one or more additional data interfaces providing one or more additional channels. A multiplexer generates a multiplexed signal encoding the first channel and the one or more additional c...