ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,013, issued on May 19, was assigned to HISENSE BROADBAND MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China).

"Optical module" was invented by Liu Yang (Qingdao, China), Qiang Zhang (Qingdao, China) and Shihai Yang (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module includes a shell, a circuit board, a light source and a silicon optical chip. The silicon optical chip includes a modulator. The circuit board includes a first sampling circuit configured to generate a first sampling signal, a second sampling circuit configured to generate a second sampling signal, and a processing circuit. The first sampling circuit is connecte...