ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,291, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Compact differential traveling wave electro-absorption modulator for high bandwidth operation" was invented by Oren Steinberg (Tel Shahar, Israel), Moshe B. Oron (Rehovot, Israel), Isabelle Cestier (Haifa, Israel), Elad Mentovich (Tel Aviv, Israel), Timothy De Keulenaer (Ghent, Belgium) and Jochem Verbist (Edegem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for an electro-absorption modulator (EAM) device. An example EAM device comprises an optical waveguide comprising a waveguide core configured to facilitate prop...