ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,335, issued on May 12, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Optical interposers" was invented by Alon Rubinstein (Kfar-Yona, Israel), Elad Mentovich (Tel Aviv, Israel), Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis (Papagou, Greece) and Paraskevas Bakopoulos (Ilion, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and associated methods of manufacturing are described that provide an optical interposer and associated communication system. An example optical interposer includes a substrate having a first end that receives a first optical fiber welded thereto and a second end that receives a plurality of photonic integrat...