ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,677, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Reconfigurable optical transceiver for use with multiple modulation techniques" was invented by Radhakrishnan Nagarajan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Masaki Kato (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Gary Mak (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module includes a plurality of lasers, each of at least some of the lasers configured to be selectively turned on and turned off depending on a type of modulation to be used. Each laser corresponds to a respective wavelength. The optical module also includes an optical modulation system having a plurality of optic...