ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,459, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).
"Distributed traveling-wave photodetector" was invented by Masaki Kato (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical communication receiver includes an optical input configured to receive from a communication link a modulated optical wave conveying data over the communication link, and a multimode waveguide, which is coupled to receive the modulated optical wave from the optical input and has a width that is selected to cause the modulated optical wave to form multiple interference maxima over an area of the multimode waveguide. The optical commu...