ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,642, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"System and method for testing optical receivers" was invented by Tatyana Antonenko (Rishon LeTsiyon, Israel), Yaakov Gridish (Yoqneam Ilit, Israel), Tamir Sharkaz (Kfar Tavor, Israel), Itshak Kalifa (Bat Yam, Israel) and Elad Mentovich (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a testing unit, system, and method for testing and predicting failure of optical receivers. The testing unit and system are configured to apply different values of current, voltage, heat stress, and illumination load on the optical receivers during testin...