ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,271, issued on April 7, was assigned to II-VI DELAWARE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Optical communication device" was invented by Andrei Kaikkonen (Jarfalla, Sweden), Simon Chen (Shanghai), Robert Lewen (Tyreso, Sweden) and Osamu Mizuhara (Allentown, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical communication device may include a driver component, arranged to achieve a driving voltage, and a modulator component, including a laser or arranged to receive light from a laser. The modulator component may be arranged to achieve a modulated light signal modulated based on the driving voltage. The device may include a transmission line arranged...